All 9 Uses of
malicious
in
The Scarlet Pimpernel
- There was at that moment so much deadly hatred, such fiendish malice in the thin face and pale, small eyes, that Marguerite's last hope died in her heart, for she felt that from this man she could expect no mercy.†
Chpt 24
- It was only after a time and with plenty of kicks, that she at last could be made to move," said the Jew with a malicious chuckle.†
Chpt 26
- He was on his way, somewhere on this lonely road, and presently he would join them; then the well-laid trap would close, two dozen men, led by one whose hatred was as deadly as his cunning was malicious, would close round the small band of fugitives, and their daring leader.†
Chpt 27
- Bewildered, half frantic with the bitterness of disappointment, she looked round her helplessly, and, bending down quite close to her, she saw through the mist, which seemed to gather round her, a pair of keen, malicious eyes, which appeared to her excited brain to have a weird, supernatural green light in them.†
Chpt 28
- She could not see Chauvelin, but she could almost feel those keen, pale eyes of his fixed maliciously upon her helpless form, and his hurried, whispered words reached her ear, as the death-knell of her last faint, lingering hope.†
Chpt 29
- "I think I can rely on you, citoyen soldiers," laughed Chauvelin, maliciously, "to give this old liar the best and soundest beating he has ever experienced."
Chpt 30 *maliciously = with a desire to see others suffer
- The howls of the Jew behind him, undergoing his punishment sent a balm through his heart, overburdened as it was with revengeful malice.†
Chpt 30
- He was smiling sarcastically, and his pale eyes peered down at her with a look of intense malice.†
Chpt 30
- — She did not know whether Percy was even now, at this moment, in the hands of the soldiers of the Republic, enduring—as she had done herself—the gibes and jeers of his malicious enemy.†
Chpt 31
Definition:
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(malicious) wanting to see others suffer; or threatening evil