spiteful

Example Sentences

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One writer noted there was “no great compliment involved in having this spiteful looking object for a namesake.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2025

Over the next several years, Tidmarsh sent a series of spiteful messages to Tang and his business associates, the lawsuit said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 3, 2025

That extra spiteful mile is unlikely to sit well with the workers who weren’t fired, since they may be next.

From Slate • Feb. 18, 2025

“I can't change the past now,” Mia says, “it feels spiteful that I can only look at the future, and that I have no clue what is going to happen.”

From BBC • Nov. 22, 2024

“Make what you can of that,” he might have said, if there were such a god, and he was feeling spiteful.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor