Sentence examples for spiteful from high-quality English sources.

• He’s spiteful.

• We’re anti-spiteful.”

• These punishments might look spiteful.

• “They say that that’s a difficult task, that nothing’s amusing that isn’t spiteful,” he began with a smile.

• But then he, too, loses his temper, and he’s as irritated and spiteful as she is.

• Repeatedly frustrated in the legislative arena, he settled on this spiteful act of diktat.

• Since her father had no relatives, Margaret was constantly subjected to the spiteful talk of her mother's family.

• After smashing your toe on the doorframe, remember that you don’t have a baby—it’s just your neighbor Jean’s spiteful cat.

Use spiteful in a sentence.

• The reluctance to marry seems to have unleashed spiteful hostility, an attitude that makes the decision not to wed a tough one.

• He believes that these are “spiteful, largely unfounded legends” that have been used to characterise an amazingly diverse social group.

• Trump was beaten with a record number of votes cast and his chaotic spiteful endgame will be remembered for decades all round the world.

• Liverpool came to Anfield for the most spiteful, razor-edged derby in elite-level English football having scored in their last 42 Premier League home games.

• And in the 10th, with McGregor again near the ropes and offering little, the fight - which followed weeks of manic build-up, spiteful words and chaos - was over.

• Research has shown Capuchin monkeys to be spiteful and we tend to think dogs can feel guilt but what is really going on in an animal’s mind and are their emotions real.

• If Trump stops the payments, which are known as cost-sharing reductions, or C.S.R.s, it would be an incredibly petty and spiteful move, with an enormous and serious human cost.

• It was the same resentful, spiteful sense of entitlement that has propelled Francois Hollande and Angela Merkel to lace their “congratulations” to Donald Trump with poisonous insult.

spiteful sentence examples

• Hancock's message also causes the sort of spiteful, punching-down reaction exhibited by WhatWouldHomerDo in this thread, where he calls for young people to be given jail time and fines in the thousands without even specifying what offence would merit those punishments.

• “I was joking of course, but look here; on one side we have a stupid, senseless, worthless, spiteful, ailing, horrid old woman, not simply useless but doing actual mischief, who has not an idea what she is living for herself, and who will die in a day or two in any case.

• Mr Möllemann, who is widely believed to have committed suicide, had once accused Mr Friedman of fostering anti-Semitism because of his “intolerant and spiteful manner”, and had published a pamphlet attacking his “pro-Israeli” views in last year's general election campaign.

• “It’s in the houses of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness,” Raskolnikov thought again, and he stole a curious glance at the cotton curtain over the door leading into another tiny room, in which stood the old woman’s bed and chest of drawers and into which he had never looked before.