Both Uses of
malicious
in
Mrs. Dalloway
- The malicious asserted that he now kept guard at Buckingham Palace, dressed in silk stockings and kneebreeches, over what nobody knew.†
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- She sat down beside him and called him by the name of that hawk or crow which being malicious and a great destroyer of crops was precisely like him.†
Definition:
wanting to see others suffer; or threatening evil