Example sentences for: spiteful

How can you use “spiteful” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Readers are hereby invited to submit suggestions to culturebox@slate.com for the most spiteful work of spiterature they've ever encountered.

  • While all around grows unmanageably grave, The Simpsons , Eddie Izzard, a James Elroy novel, or the fact that Taco Bell is giving away free alien eyeballs, and I simply have to have one, all prevent my perspectives from succumbing to the kind of cultural isolation and spiteful tunnel vision that has become the hallmark of modern political discussion.

  • Critics are seduced by the Dickensian depths of this Dutch thriller, set in 1920s Rotterdam, about a spiteful father and his resentful bastard son.

  • If the relationship is over--no matter that he done you wrong--let everything be over, including the spiteful desire to get even.

  • Problems are said to include a glut of heavy-handed in-jokes; a spiteful tone; and disjointed editing, done by the film's despised screenwriter, Joe Eszterhas ( Showgirls ). (The film is plugged here.)


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