spitefulness

Example Sentences

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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

The self-serving spitefulness of the Roy family was repeatedly put into sharp relief by a number of foils and opponents who were somehow even worse.

From The Guardian • Dec. 19, 2019

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