spitefully
Example Sentences
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He can still spitefully quote the negative reviews for his 1940 musical “Pal Joey.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2025
“Oh yes he did, oh yes he did,” she said, according to the filing, which says that Carroll made the comments “with an intent to significantly and spitefully harm and attack” the former president.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 28, 2023
“They make the life without glory,” she says, spitefully, of the dried-up women who mock her.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 21, 2019
Sally may spitefully claim her father never gave her anything, but she is her father’s daughter.
From Slate • Jun. 17, 2013
Bacigalupi’s garbage wagon went by, and Martin looked after it spitefully.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
