MALICIOUS in a Sentence

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People will remember for years-- The hardness went out of his face and a malicious light danced in his eyes.

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 Meanings and Examples of MALICIOUS
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malicious
 a.  deliberately harmful; proceeding from extreme hatred
Classic Sentence: (49 in 4 pages)
1  But there was a difference, for beneath Rhett's seeming lightness there was something malicious, almost sinister in its suave brutality.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  There was a malicious tenderness in his voice.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
3  It was entirely personal, a malicious action aimed directly at her and hers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
4  The South had been tilted as by a giant malicious hand, and those who had once ruled were now more helpless than their former slaves had ever been.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
5  He had died two months before and much of the bright malicious joy of life had gone from her old eyes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
6  A slow malicious smile went over his face as he read her eyes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
7  Once she had thought that if he ever spoke those words she would humble him and make him feel her power and take a malicious pleasure in doing it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
8  At the party tonight, women would gather in corners and whisper discreetly and with malicious pleasure.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
9  She realized now that though he had infuriated her with his malicious comments and roused her to heated rejoinders, he had done it because he cared what she did and said.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVIII
10  People will remember for years-- The hardness went out of his face and a malicious light danced in his eyes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVIII
11  He was not drinking as he had formerly, becoming increasingly more polished and biting as the liquor took hold of him, saying amusing, malicious things that made her laugh in spite of herself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LX
12  Nor, in quite other aspects, does Nature in her least palpable but not the less malicious agencies, fail to enlist among her forces this crowning attribute of the terrible.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
13  But Radney, the mate, was ugly as a mule; yet as hardy, as stubborn, as malicious.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
14  A most malicious wag, that fellow.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 127. The Deck.
15  But as if perceiving this stratagem, Moby Dick, with that malicious intelligence ascribed to him, sidelingly transplanted himself, as it were, in an instant, shooting his pleated head lengthwise beneath the boat.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day.
Example Sentence:
1  The same principles of deception and misdirection, albeit on a much smaller scale, are now starting to be used by some organisations to thwart malicious hackers keen to establish a bridgehead on internal networks.
2  "Wild" may be a misnomer. The malicious starting of fires is as old as the human fascination with flame and many of the fires may be directly or indirectly caused by humans.
3  Some malicious rumours are circulating about his past.
4  He was held on remand, charged with causing malicious damage to property.
5  It is just plain malicious software designed to corrupt your device or steal your information.