All 24 Uses of

malice
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Nothing was to be heard but imprecations on the Flemish, the provost of the merchants, the Cardinal de Bourbon, the bailiff of the courts, Madame Marguerite of Austria, the sergeants with their rods, the cold, the heat, the bad weather, the Bishop of Paris, the Pope of the Fools, the pillars, the statues, that closed door, that open window; all to the vast amusement of a band of scholars and lackeys scattered through the mass, who mingled with all this discontent their teasing remarks, and their malicious suggestions, and pricked the general bad temper with a pin, so to speak.†
Chpt 1.1.1

Then, while Guillaume Rym, a "sage and malicious man," as Philippe de Comines puts it, watched them both with a smile of raillery and superiority, each sought his place, the cardinal quite abashed and troubled, Coppenole tranquil and haughty, and thinking, no doubt, that his title of hosier was as good as any other, after all, and that Marie of Burgundy, mother to that Marguerite whom Coppenole was to-day bestowing in marriage, would have been less afraid of the cardinal than of the hosier;†
Chpt 1.1.4

We shall not try to give the reader an idea of that tetrahedral nose, that horseshoe mouth; that little left eye obstructed with a red, bushy, bristling eyebrow, while the right eye disappeared entirely beneath an enormous wart; of those teeth in disarray, broken here and there, like the embattled parapet of a fortress; of that callous lip, upon which one of these teeth encroached, like the tusk of an elephant; of that forked chin; and above all, of the expression spread over the whole; of that mixture of malice, amazement, and sadness.†
Chpt 1.1.5

malice = the desire to hurt others or see them suffer

It was no longer the voice of the bald man; it was the voice of a woman, bigoted and malicious.†
Chpt 1.2.3 *

For the hunchback was robust; for the bandy-legged fellow was agile; for the deaf man was malicious: three qualities which temper ridicule.†
Chpt 1.2.3

Belleforet, Father Le Juge, and Corrozet affirm that it was picked up on the morrow, with great pomp, by the clergy of the quarter, and borne to the treasury of the church of Saint Opportune, where the sacristan, even as late as 1789, earned a tolerably handsome revenue out of the great miracle of the Statue of the Virgin at the corner of the Rue Mauconseil, which had, by its mere presence, on the memorable night between the sixth and seventh of January, 1482, exorcised the defunct Eustache Moubon, who, in order to play a trick on the devil, had at his death maliciously concealed his soul in his straw pallet.†
Chpt 1.2.5

maliciously = with a desire to see others suffer; or in a threatening manner

He was malicious, in fact, because he was savage; he was savage because he was ugly.†
Chpt 1.4.3

Nevertheless, there was one human creature whom Quasimodo excepted from his malice and from his hatred for others, and whom he loved even more, perhaps, than his cathedral: this was Claude Frollo.†
Chpt 1.4.4

malice = the desire to hurt others or see them suffer

Parisian malice, which thrusts its finger into everything, even into things which concern it the least, affirmed that it had beheld but few widows there.†
Chpt 1.6.2

Her white goat knows tricks that are too malicious for there not to be some impiety underneath it all.†
Chpt 1.6.3

The joy at seeing him appear thus in the pillory had been universal; and the harsh punishment which he had just suffered, and the pitiful condition in which it had left him, far from softening the populace had rendered its hatred more malicious by arming it with a touch of mirth.†
Chpt 1.6.4

All cherished some rancor against him, some for his malice, others for his ugliness.†
Chpt 1.6.4

malice = the desire to hurt others or see them suffer

They were cruel and graceful; they searched and rummaged maliciously in her poor and silly toilet of spangles and tinsel.†
Chpt 2.7.1

maliciously = with a desire to see others suffer; or in a threatening manner

A malicious page amused himself by splashing the scholars, by making his horse gallop through the mire!†
Chpt 2.7.4

This quotation, which the scholar borrowed with malice, perchance, from the wall of the cell, produced a singular effect on the archdeacon.†
Chpt 2.7.4

malice = the desire to hurt others or see them suffer

He cast a glance of tenderness and admiration into the interior of the precious pouch, readjusted his toilet, rubbed up his boots, dusted his poor half sleeves, all gray with ashes, whistled an air, indulged in a sportive pirouette, looked about to see whether there were not something more in the cell to take, gathered up here and there on the furnace some amulet in glass which might serve to bestow, in the guise of a trinket, on Isabeau la Thierrye, finally pushed open the door which his brother had left unfastened, as a last indulgence, and which he, in his turn, left open as a last piece of malice, and descended the circular staircase, skipping like a bird.†
Chpt 2.7.6

After all, nature was not dumb in the poor fellow, and his human sensibility, all maliciously contorted as it was, quivered no less than any other.†
Chpt 2.9.4

maliciously = with a desire to see others suffer; or in a threatening manner

Jehan gazed at him with a malicious, knowing look, and cracked his fingers like castanets.†
Chpt 2.10.4

"Sire," resumed Olivier le Daim, with the malicious air of a man who rejoices that he is about to deal a violent blow, "'tis not against the bailiff of the courts that this popular sedition is directed."†
Chpt 2.10.5

Definition:

the intention or desire to see others suffer