Spiteful Sentence Examples

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  • When he opened the ballroom door Pierre saw Natasha sitting at the window, with a thin, pale, and spiteful face.

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  • She ignores Martin 's spiteful behavior and walks away.

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  • The publication of a spiteful letter (really by Horace Walpole, one of whose worst deeds it was) in the name of the king of Prussia made Rousseau believe that plots of the most terrible kind were on foot against him.

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  • Most of these people are just spiteful bitter and twisted.

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  • She played the spiteful rival to Kim Delaney's Jenny Gardner for three years.

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  • Of course, Soames, a former equerry to Prince Charles, has also spoken out against spiteful and reckless attacks on minorities.

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  • You say she has become very spiteful over the past few weeks.

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  • His gritty and often downright spiteful contributions soon earned all the wrong sort of headlines and won United infamy for their base approach.

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  • Tu Mu's somewhat spiteful charge against Ts`ao Kung has already been considered elsewhere.

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  • However, these are only two of Fred's quibbles - some of which seem almost spiteful.

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  • All such solitary bulls, as their colloquial name indicates, are of a spiteful disposition; and it appears that with the majority the inducement to live apart is due to their partiality for cultivated crops, into which the more timid females are afraid to venture.

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  • The name Zoilus came to be generally used of a spiteful and malignant critic.

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  • As soon as he came across a former acquaintance or anyone from the staff, he bristled up immediately and grew spiteful, ironical, and contemptuous.

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  • Louise, ignore the other comments, I ca n't believe the spiteful remarks that have been made on this site.

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  • Obviously you will have to see that no-one gets hurt and stop any hitting or spiteful comments.

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  • Until 1939 National Socialism had been the target of the most spiteful attacks.

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  • This period also saw her turn into a bitter and spiteful woman seeking only solitude.

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  • Even if hurtful and spiteful things may have been said, tempers may calm and talking may become an option once more.

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  • Even the spiteful or treacherous act of Dolet, who in 1542 reprinted the earlier form of the books which Rabelais had just slightly modified, seems to have done him no harm.

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  • The blot on it is certainly the character of Emilie, who is spiteful and thankless, not heroic. Polyeucte has sometimes been elevated to the same position.

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  • Tu Mu 's somewhat spiteful charge against Ts`ao Kung has already been considered elsewhere.

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  • However, these are only two of Fred 's quibbles - some of which seem almost spiteful.

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  • The Law Commission has pandered to the destructive agenda of a radical feminist minister who appears to be pursuing a spiteful vendetta against men.

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  • You will never find Sagittarius being mean-spirited or spiteful, unless there are some serious negative chart aspects.

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  • Her lover agrees to marry her, but the couple must overcome his spiteful step-mother Angelica.

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  • That's as spiteful as you get, isn't it?

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  • Just spiteful, I guess.

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  • The bloke has become fanatical, perhaps spiteful, or is just stupid.

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  • But I cannot believe somebody would be so spiteful to do this to us.

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  • She, and not the king, probably was the author of the petty persecutions inflicted upon Catherine and upon the princess Mary, and her jealousy of the latter showed itself in spiteful malice.

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  • His father was by some said to have been descended from Attius Tullius, the Volscian host of Coriolanus, while spiteful persons declared him to have been a fuller; in any case he was a Roman knight with property at Arpinum and a house in Rome.

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  • The savage punishment of the Neapolitan Republicans is dealt with in more detail under Naples, Nelson and Caracciolo, but it is necessary to say here that the king, and above all the queen, were particularly anxious that no mercy should be shown to the rebels, and Maria Carolina made use of Lady Hamilton, Nelson's mistress, to induce him to execute her own spiteful vengeance.

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  • The best-known accounts of Cirey life, those of Madame de Grafigny, date from the winter of 1738-39; they are somewhat spiteful but very amusing, depicting the frequent quarrels between Madame du Chatelet and Voltaire, his intense suffering under criticism, his constant dread of the surreptitious publication of the Pucelle (which nevertheless he could not keep his hands from writing or his tongue from reciting to his visitors), and so forth.

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