All 9 Uses of
malicious
in
Go Tell It on the Mountain
- More than his words, his face caused John to stiffen instantly with malice and fear.†
Chpt 1.1
- John smiled back at her, a smile that, despite the shy gratitude it was meant to convey, did not escape being ironic, or even malicious.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- Her mother had taught her that the way to pray was to forget everything and everyone but Jesus; to pour out of the heart, like water from a bucket, all evil thoughts, all thoughts of self, all malice for one's enemies; to come boldly, and yet more humbly than a little child, before the Giver of all good things.†
Chpt 2.1
- With Florence gone, his stammering time, his playing time, contracted with a bound to the sparest interrogative second, when he must stiffen himself, and answer to his mother, and all the host of Heaven, yes or no. Florence smiled inwardly a small, malicious smile, watching his slow bafflement, and panic, and rage; and she looked at her mother again.†
Chpt 2.1
- "Gabriel can take care of you," she said, her voice shaking with malice.†
Chpt 2.1
- And then he asked, maliciously: "She tell you if she married yet?"†
Chpt 2.2
- "But I can't help it," she said, after a moment, maliciously teasing, "if you done things that you's ashamed of, Reverend."†
Chpt 2.2
- These boys, now, who stood before drugstore windows, before poolrooms, on every street corner, who whistled after her, whose lean bodies fairly rang, it seemed, with idleness, and malice, and frustration.†
Chpt 2.3
- He wanted to rise? a malicious, ironic voice insisted that he rise? and, at once, to leave this temple and go out into the world.†
Chpt 3.1
Definition:
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(malicious) wanting to see others suffer; or threatening evil