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Spiteful

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Spiteful meaning

Filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to annoy or harm.

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Example sentences (20)

They turn to deliver a few more (often, a lot more) spiteful/tearful/gut-wrenching lines, prolonging our agony.

Those that say, “no,” think he’s being spiteful.

Unfairly compelled to leave their family home and left almost destitute by their brother and his spiteful wife, the Dashwood sisters and their mother must make a new beginning.

A judge heard it was "mean and spiteful" behaviour and jailed Burton for 12 months for arson.

Let me guess, your father picked up on Adam being immature, spiteful, selfish, and poor mannered.

Louis reopened these wounds all by himself being spiteful and disrespectful we aren’t going to have our character taken.

Members of the Freedom Caucus have behaved like spiteful toddlers since 2015 by obstructing government and as a result have normalized tantrums.

Spiteful and loving in equal measure, it's the relationship for which the expression "can't live with them, can't live without them" was coined.

You seem to react to anything that upsets you with violence, spiteful violence as well.

Homer forgets to pickup Bart from soccer practice on a rotten day for weather, leading a spiteful Bart to look for a mentor from The Bigger Brothers program.

In a particularly spiteful moment, she tells Carmela this just to inflict pain on her longtime friend.

Just as the idea of a powerful corporation destroying his father's work turned Peter spiteful, Brock harbors the same resentment toward Peter, unable to prevent a super-powered enforcer from taking his legacy away and eradicating its potential.

Responding to this, Bower, who appeared on "Good Morning Britain" on Monday, believes that it was the Duchess of Sussex behind the "spiteful" statement.

Roord is booked for a spiteful tackle on Kayleigh Green.

Rugby league: Cronulla Sharks facing busy date with NRL judiciary ahead of clash with New Zealand WarriorsA spiteful clash between the Newcastle Knights and Cronulla Sharks went up a gear after Chad Townsend was sent off for a vicious hit on Kalyn Ponga.

This false allegation is most unfortunate, spiteful, malicious and intended to cruelly destroy my hard-earned reputation.

This just goes to show that Draco is spiteful and lacking in any sympathy for other people except himself.

Tradition indicates they are connected to fertility rites and are characterised as contradictory or even spiteful in their actions.

After cross-party pressure, Theresa May waived a £65 fee for applicants – a spiteful levy that would discourage people from signing up and push those unable to pay into legal limbo.

Connolly and Gibbs said in the complaint that they question the intention and goal of Braithwaite’s “spiteful comments” from the dais.