Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being spiteful; the desire to vex, annoy, or injure, proceeding from irritation; malevolence; malice.
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- noun uncountable The state or quality of being
spiteful . - noun countable The result or product of being
spiteful .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun feeling a need to see others suffer
- noun malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty
Etymologies
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Examples
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Among them, at least, spitefulness is not a national institution.
Religion 2005
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Among them, at least, spitefulness is not a national institution.
unbillable hours: 2005
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Among them, at least, spitefulness is not a national institution.
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It seems a sad kind of spitefulness in nature that persons should have so much trouble to bear when they are tired and faint-hearted and only wish for repose.
The Silent Isle Arthur Christopher Benson 1893
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Why would I trade these blessings for their bickering, arguing, spitefulness, and bitterness.
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If booze makes you quarrelsome, then gin can lead you to spitefulness.
What's Your Problem? 2009
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Judging from the thinly-veiled spitefulness of your comments in here, it must suck to be you.
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If booze makes you quarrelsome, then gin can lead you to spitefulness.
What's Your Problem? 2009
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If booze makes you quarrelsome, then gin can lead you to spitefulness.
What's Your Problem? 2009
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Coolidge doesn't so much crack gags as purr them; her precise, silken tones belying the silliness or spitefulness of the material.
Jennifer Coolidge 2010
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