spitefulness

I gather, from your report of it, it's a regular old-fashioned hair-pulling sort of feminine spitefulness.

There was no longer the same zest in the little scandals and petty spitefulness of a private school.

It is the essence of spitefulness to say that nothing can be a benefit which does not cause some inconvenience to the giver.

"Chick-a-rer chick" is its usual call-note, jerked out with great spitefulness.

Neither his mother nor the baron noticed his attitude of spitefulness.