spitefulness
Example Sentences
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But in "F2F," her spitefulness and self-hatred are almost too relatable you forget her lyrics are so toxic.
From Salon ● Dec. 29, 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
