All 10 Uses of
malice
in
Catch-22
- His eyes gleamed maliciously.†
Chpt 4 *maliciously = with a desire to see others suffer; or in a threatening manner
- He walked through life selfconsciously with downcast eyes and burning cheeks, the object of contempt, envy, suspicion, resentment and malicious innuendo everywhere he went.†
Chpt 9
- Well, I'll be danmed!' ex-P. F.C. Wintergreen crowed with malicious glee.†
Chpt 12
- Despite the multiple perils to which Major — de Coverley exposed himself each time he rented apartments, his only injury had occurred, ironically enough, while he was leading the triumphal procession into the open city of Rome, where he was wounded in the eye by a flower fired at him from close range by a seedy, cackling, intoxicated old man, who, like Satan himself, had then bounded up on Major — de Coverley's car with malicious glee, seized him roughly and contemptuously by his venerable white head and kissed him mockingly on each cheek with a mouth reeking with sour fumes of wine, cheese and garlic, before dropping back into the joyous celebrating throngs with a hollow, dry, excoriating l†
Chpt 13
- They gathered soberly in the farthest recess of the ward and gossiped about him in malicious, offended undertones, rebelling against his presence as a ghastly imposition and resenting him malevolently for the nauseating truth of which he was bright reminder.†
Chpt 17
- 'For how long?' mocked the profane old man with a gleam of malicious elation.†
Chpt 23
- He laughed quietly in malicious defiance.†
Chpt 25
- 'Oh, no, you're not,' gloated Major Sanderson maliciously.†
Chpt 27maliciously = with a desire to see others suffer; or in a threatening manner
- He could picture the fiery and malicious exhilaration with which they had made their wreckage, and their sanctimonious, ruthless sense of right and dedication.†
Chpt 39
- Yossarian lunged for his tormentor's throat with one hand, but the man glided out of reach effortlessly and vanished into the corridor with a malicious laugh.†
Chpt 41
Definition:
the intention or desire to see others suffer