spiteful
adjective
full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous.
spitefulness
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a word derived from
spiteful.
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
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
What happened to it was, he says, "one of the most torrid pages of meanness and spitefulness to be found in the annals of Welsh history".
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2016
There’s nothing but spitefulness that’ll argue she’s wrong.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
