Both Uses of
malicious
in
A Death in the Family
- RHRH — — — — — (he wrenched it rudely but adroitly in a backward curve, almost to the chicken wire; from between the houses, light from the street caught its black side) rhrh — — — — (and swung as rudely round the corner of the barn and, by opposite turn, into the alley, facing eastward, where it stood) rhrh — — — — — — — — (obedient, conquered, malicious as a mule, while he briefly reappeared, faced towards the house, saw her, waved one hand — she waved, but he did not see her — and drew the gate shut disappearing beyond it) rhrhrhrhrhrhrhRHRHRH-RHRHRHR She released a long breath, very slowly, and went into the house.†
Chpt 2
- right, Tom get ye some sleep; and Tom pulled his head back through the ceiling and looked down at him with those empty blue eyes and said, "That's all right, Mr. Ralph, and suddenly Ralph realized that he had no intention of sleeping and would be there alone, not sleeping a wink, just ready in case he was needed; and that Tom had seen his malice, his desire to belittle him, and had belittled him instead, before his mother and his wife and his dying father.†
Chpt 6 *malice = the desire to hurt others or see them suffer
Definition:
wanting to see others suffer; or threatening evil