All 6 Uses of
malice
in
The Age of Innocence
- "Perhaps the Beauforts don't know her," Janey suggested, with her artless malice.†
Chpt 5 *malice = the desire to hurt others or see them suffer
- Mrs. Manson Mingott screwed up her little mouth into a grimace of mimic prudery and twinkled at him through malicious lids.†
Chpt 17
- He wanted to thank her for having been to see his mother, but under the ancestress's malicious eye he felt himself tongue-tied and constrained.†
Chpt 17
- She looked at him with a flash of her old malice.†
Chpt 23malice = the desire to hurt others or see them suffer
- "Ah, but not as handsome as Ellen!" she jerked out, twinkling at him maliciously; and before he could answer she added: "Was she so awfully handsome the day you drove her up from the ferry?"†
Chpt 30maliciously = with a desire to see others suffer; or in a threatening manner
- Archer looked at him, and thought he saw in his gay young eyes a gleam of his great-grandmother Mingott's malice.†
Chpt 34malice = the desire to hurt others or see them suffer
Definition:
the intention or desire to see others suffer