Meanings of petty malice in English

So I baffled the woman, and could see her petty malice dumbed.

By Joshua his bugle a generous lass, and void of petty malice.

I thought of the petty malice of Baldy and those like him.

What did he care then for Halbert Davis and his petty malice!

There may have been some petty malice in what I said.

Purely from petty malice, I waved a hand and hexed his radio, or phone.

But he had left mementos which jealousy could not conceal nor petty malice destroy.

Do you hold me capable of such petty malice?

The petty malice of the two short lines-

You wear petty malice so well, Liv said.

It is full of meanness, rowdyism, petty malice.

I will not retort the petty malice which prompted this mean act of revenge, by mentioning names.

Such petty malice demanded not a second thought from minds so well-regulated as those of Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton.

With the petty malice which he inherited from his mother, he hoped that Phil had been unable to find a place and was in distress.

By getting in a rage, by loud, angry talking and evil-speaking and petty malice, by unkindness and hard-heartedness and an unforgiving spirit, we grieve Him.

"Thou canst not shake me by thy petty malice," answered Front-de-Boeuf, with a ghastly and constrained laugh.