spitefulness
IPA: spˈaɪtfʌɫnʌs
noun
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being spiteful.
- (countable) The result or product of being spiteful.
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Examples of "spitefulness" in Sentences
- Among them, at least, spitefulness is not a national institution.
- If booze makes you quarrelsome, then gin can lead you to spitefulness.
- Why would I trade these blessings for their bickering, arguing, spitefulness, and bitterness.
- Judging from the thinly-veiled spitefulness of your comments in here, it must suck to be you.
- Coolidge doesn't so much crack gags as purr them; her precise, silken tones belying the silliness or spitefulness of the material.
- 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.