spitefulness

Example Sentences

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Steve Jones, defending, said that Barrett acknowledged the "spitefulness" of her actions, but that it was an offence committed "on impulse".

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2024

For one thing, DeGeneres's spitefulness had fueled rumors for years.

From Salon • Aug. 5, 2023

It has a Big Bad — Leland Townsend, a primly malevolent nemesis played with a marvelous comic spitefulness by Michael Emerson — whose ratio of psychopathy versus supernatural dominion is teasingly unspecified.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2021

Characters who, ruminating on the “Old Testament spitefulness of the phrase got what she deserved,” suggest “Sometimes women do”? Shouldn’t Flynn rose-tint them, soften them, girl-power them?

From Washington Post • Jul. 5, 2018

Though they knew he was a wizard they showed him no regard, but rather a kind of cautious spitefulness.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin