All 10 Uses of

malice
in
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

There was half a moment of silence, immediately interrupted by the droning voice of the salaried cicerone: "Ancient hauberk, date of the sixth century, time of King Arthur and the Round Table; said to have belonged to the knight Sir Sagramor le Desirous; observe the round hole through the chain-mail in the left breast; can't be accounted for; supposed to have been done with a bullet since invention of firearms—perhaps maliciously by Cromwell's soldiers."†
Chpt Pref.

maliciously = with a desire to see others suffer; or in a threatening manner

Merlin, in his malice, has woven a spell about this dungeon, and there bides not the man in these kingdoms that would be desperate enough to essay to cross its lines with you!†
Chpt 5

malice = the desire to hurt others or see them suffer

I had always responded to his efforts as well as I could, and felt a very deep and real kindness for him, too, for the reason that if by malice of fate he knew the one particular anecdote which I had heard oftenest and had most hated and most loathed all my life, he had at least spared it me.†
Chpt 9

A master might kill his slave for nothing—for mere spite, malice, or to pass the time—just as we have seen that the crowned head could do it with his slave, that is to say, anybody.†
Chpt 18

However, it was not for that that I left him jailed, but for maliciously destroying the only public well in one of his wretched villages.†
Chpt 18

maliciously = with a desire to see others suffer; or in a threatening manner

If he were persuaded against his will, he would load that well with a malicious enchantment which would balk me until I found out its secret.†
Chpt 22

I take it none of you are unpopular—by reason of pride or insolence, or conspicuous prosperity, or any of those things that excite envy and malice among the base scum of a village?†
Chpt 33

malice = the desire to hurt others or see them suffer

Merlin broke in, rubbing his hands and smiling his lowdownest smile of malicious gratification: "'Tis well said, right well said!†
Chpt 39

She halted, and said with an accent of malicious satisfaction: "Ye were conquerors; ye are conquered!†
Chpt 44

Definition:

the intention or desire to see others suffer