All 9 Uses of
malicious
in
The Good Earth
- And then he added somewhat maliciously, pulling at the hairs on his mole, "And do not think that silver will waken him—he has had silver under his hand since he was born."†
Chpt 6 *
- At last Wang Lung said maliciously and without looking up, "I ask your pardon, my uncle, for not stopping in my work.†
Chpt 7
- His uncle understood perfectly Wang Lung's malice, but he answered smoothly, "I am a man of evil destiny.†
Chpt 7
- "Well, and Wang the farmer!" she said, lingering with malice on the word farmer, "and who would think to see you here!"†
Chpt 18
- Then after a time Wang Lung's uncle's wife came out, laughing a little maliciously, and she dusted her hands together as though to free them of something that clung to them.†
Chpt 20
- And then she said with a deeper malice, "She is not so young as she looks, my nephew!†
Chpt 20
- Where the elder was tall and big-boned and ruddy faced as men of the north are and like his mother, this second one was short and slight and yellow-skinned, and there was that in him which reminded Wang Lung of his own father, a crafty, sharp, humorous eye, and a turn for malice if the moment came for it.†
Chpt 25
- All this time the eldest son was in agony of shame at this byplay between man and woman who ought not even to speak to each other, and he glanced at his wife because he was ashamed of his cousin and of his sister-in-law before her who had been more gently bred than he, and his cousin saw his timidity before his wife and said with malice, "Well, and I had rather eat red meat any day than a slice of cold and tasteless fish like this other one!"†
Chpt 31
- "It will be a pretty thing to tell the mistress," Cuckoo said, then, and her eyes sparkled with malice.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
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(malicious) wanting to see others suffer; or threatening evil