All 8 Uses of
malicious
in
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene by Greene
- Two were girls - a thin washed-out child - of five, six, seven? he couldn't tell, and one who had been sharpened by hunger into an appearance of devilry and malice beyond her age.†
Chpt 2.1
- Maria went to the door and called, 'Brigitta, Brigitta,' and the priest turned on his side and watched her come in out of the outside landscape of terror and lust - that small malicious child who had laughed at him.†
Chpt 2.1
- She made a last impudent malicious gesture and was gone-perhaps for ever as far as he was concerned.†
Chpt 2.1
- Three of four faces looked at him with malicious amusement:
Chpt 2.2 *malicious = wanting to see others suffer
- He remembered her coming into the hut, the dark malicious knowing look with the sunlight at her back.†
Chpt 2.3
- Now that the fight was over she seemed to bear no malice; her tail began to beat the floor, hopefully, questioningly.†
Chpt 2.4
- The schoolmaster was at his door and waved an ironic greeting, malicious and horn-rimmed.†
Chpt 3.1
- 'All the same, you're worried now about a little pain,' the lieutenant said maliciously, watching his fingers.†
Chpt 3.3
Definition:
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(malicious) wanting to see others suffer; or threatening evil