Adjective : malicious gossip. From Dictionary.com.
No, simpler, light-come and light-go, passionate and forgetful, like children, and all the time South Pacific, that is to say unmalicious and good-tempered. From Wordnik.com. [Mystic Isles of the South Seas.] Reference
He is also an indescribably mild and unmalicious child. From Wordnik.com. [Death at an Early Age] Reference
Toomes, startled, flashed one of his rare unmalicious smiles. From Wordnik.com. [The Sinister Six Combo]
Norman was my line manager, and he was a decent man, quietly desperate but unmalicious. From Wordnik.com. [Nostalgia Bulletin « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog] Reference
One cannot help thinking, with a little unmalicious amusement, what a cuckoo child the poet must have been to this pair. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
Thinking back, he believed that her crime against her son had been unthinking and unmalicious, a casual product of curiosity and boredom. From Wordnik.com. [Dearly Beloved]
Do you think the victims of racial discrimination will care how logical and unmalicious were your motives for setting up an objectively racist regime?. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Libertarianism, Federalism, and Racism] Reference
He had no stubborn material for his hands, for even in his youth Mr. Ticknor showed many of those traits which most clearly marked him in after life; among others, an intelligent, unimaginative, but also unmalicious observation of his kind for his relaxation, and for his work in life warm devotion to the study of letters. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876] Reference
There was definite contact but Webb deemed it unmalicious. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
It replied with a strange but unmalicious sound, its chin jutted, looking for a pat or tickle. From Wordnik.com. Reference
He was on such familiar terms with his class that their friendly, unmalicious jokes at his expense created no bad feeling. From Wordnik.com. [History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912] Reference
Gangubai is a lively, even chirpy, conversationalist, full of anecdotes and sharp but unmalicious comments on fellow musicians. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Upon Cookery M. Rouquet is edifying; and concerning the eighteenth-century physician, with his tye-wig and gilt-head cane, sprightly and not unmalicious. From Wordnik.com. [De Libris: Prose and Verse] Reference
Chicago's menacing but social yawp in his ear; for the pale and eleemosynary stare through the Bostonian eyeglass -- even for the precipitate but unmalicious boot-toe of Louisville or St. Louis. From Wordnik.com. [The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million] Reference
Her little nose, and her fresh colour, and her silly but not unmalicious laugh, were called enchanting; and all irregularities of feature and faults of shape were absolutely turned into merits by that odd commendation, so common with us -- "A deuced fine girl; none of your regular beauties.". From Wordnik.com. [Godolphin, Complete] Reference
Do victims of the Holocaust and anti-Judaism care about how logical and unmalicious Jacoby’s motives are?. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Libertarianism, Federalism, and Racism] Reference
Do you think that a crime victim would care how logical and unmalicious were the ACLU’s motives for taking objectively pro-criminal positions?. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Libertarianism, Federalism, and Racism] Reference
Do you think that a victim of Saddam Hussein would care how logical and unmalicious were the anti-war protesters’ motives for taking objectively pro-Saddam positions?. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Libertarianism, Federalism, and Racism] Reference
"'But, on the other hand, not only His Supremacy, but the dictates of charity and justice as well, insist that I recommend him to you as a well-meaning man, or at least as an unmalicious child, like most of these educated and gentle - manly pagans (and pagans they will make of themselves, in spite of all). From Wordnik.com. [A Canticle for Leibowitz]
The solicitor, rather to my surprise, approves this general sociological line of defence; and says that I may be allowed one or two witnesses of weight and sociological standing -- not (of course) to say my words are defensible, still less that my view is right -- but simply to say that the Servile State, and Servile terms in connection with it, are known to them as parts of a current and quite unmalicious controversy. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference
No one was harmed by this gentle and unmalicious joke, "they said. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Blogs] Reference
Lenina's laugh was frank and wholly unmalicious. From Wordnik.com. [Brave New World]
Surprised but unmalicious. From Wordnik.com. [A WINTER'S TALE] Reference
He was a large man, broad-shouldered and heavy-muscled; and his face was lazy, phlegmatic, slothful, withal kindly, yet without passion, and quite soulless — a dim soul, unmalicious, unmoral, bovine, and stubborn. From Wordnik.com. [Pictures - Stray Memories of Life in the Underworld] Reference
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