spiteful

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On this page you'll find 80 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to spiteful, such as: barbed, catty, cruel, hateful, malicious, and ornery.

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I’ve endured spiteful comments, like the ones I read at Outside that day, throughout my entire life, from being bullied in school to being spit on and harassed in the streets by random strangers.
What I Learned from Writing Outside’s Pride Newsletter | awise | August 26, 2021 | Outside Online
With pop-punk intensity, she sing-talks her way through a song that’s unapologetically bitter and spiteful, with a guitar-driven chorus that just asks for a cathartic singalong.
The Best Songs of 2021 So Far | Raisa Bruner | May 26, 2021 | Time
For example, at ages 8 and 9, children made spiteful choices 41 percent of the time with in-group members and 44 percent of the time with out-group members, as compared with 17 versus 33 percent for 12- and 13-year-olds.
Was the Golden Rule Born in the Mind of a Monkey? - Facts So Romantic | Julie Sedivy | March 4, 2021 | Nautilus

What remains is just bigotry, and probably a spiteful resistance to being seen as caving in to the relativists.
The Grotesque Ban On Gays In New York’s St Patrick’s Day Parade | Michael Tomasky | March 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
He describes himself on a train platform in Hanover, spiteful and sexually frustrated, throwing coins on the floor.
In Defense of Jonathan Franzen | Michelle Goldberg | September 26, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
Subordinated as it is here rewritten, it does not half express the spiteful independence she assumed to teach Coppy a lesson.
English: Composition and Literature | W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
This was the first time he had smarted in his penetrable part—the skin—and it made him very spiteful.
It Is Never Too Late to Mend | Charles Reade
This sentence evidently cannot mean that a father may refuse food to his son if the latter is spiteful.
My Religion | Leo Tolstoy
He was not only terrified but angered, and whirling about, he brought down his gun with spiteful violence on the writhing body.
Two Boys in Wyoming | Edward S. Ellis
No one has yet enjoyed any spiteful fun at Mrs. Depew's expense though many were on the qui vive for entertainment.
The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2 | Various

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