All 12 Uses of
malicious
in
Look Homeward, Angel
- He felt bitterly that Eliza had with deliberate malice publicly degraded him: he screamed denunciation and abuse at her on his return home.†
Chpt 1malice = the desire to hurt others or see them suffer
- "Would you like some cold pork, son?" said Coker, with his yellow malicious grin.†
Chpt 2 *
- Then he wheeled off, full of rich laughter and triumphant malice.†
Chpt 2malice = the desire to hurt others or see them suffer
- And this unsleeping demon wheeled, plunged, revolved about an object, returning suddenly, after it had flown away, with victorious malice, leaving stripped, mean, and common all that he had clothed with wonder.†
Chpt 2
- He had believed for years that he was persecuted—his failure at home he attributed to the malice, envy, and disloyalty of his family, his failure abroad to the malice and envy of an opposing force that he called "the world."†
Chpt 2
- He had believed for years that he was persecuted—his failure at home he attributed to the malice, envy, and disloyalty of his family, his failure abroad to the malice and envy of an opposing force that he called "the world."†
Chpt 2
- He grinned maliciously.†
Chpt 2maliciously = with a desire to see others suffer; or in a threatening manner
- His lips were always twisted in a satanic smile, his eyes gleamed sideward with heavy malicious humor.†
Chpt 3
- He was a "kidder," an egger-on, finding excuse for his vulgarity and malice in a false and loud good-humor.†
Chpt 3malice = the desire to hurt others or see them suffer
- "Why, son," said Eliza with a touch of malice, "that girl was fooling you all the time.†
Chpt 3
- That face on which the condor Thought has fed, arched with high subtle malice, sophist glee.†
Chpt 3
- "So should I," said Vergil Weldon, and their faces arched with gleeful malice over the heavy laughter of the class.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
wanting to see others suffer; or threatening evil