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Spitefulness

noun
1.
Feeling a need to see others suffer.  Synonyms: malice, maliciousness, spite, venom.
2.
Malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty.  Synonyms: bitchiness, cattiness, nastiness, spite.






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"Spitefulness" Quotes from Famous Books



... spoke Fagerolles' delicate girlish face remained perfectly grave, and it was impossible to tell whether he was joking. There was but the slightest yellow twinkle of spitefulness in the depths of his grey eyes. And he finished with a sarcastic allusion, the drift of which was as yet patent to him alone. 'Ah, well! if you let yourself be influenced by the fools who laugh, you'll have enough to do by ...
— His Masterpiece • Emile Zola

... not like him the better—he never played with him willingly—scowled, and looked dark and jealous, if his father, or if any of the great nobles took the least notice of the little Duke, and whenever he was out of hearing, talked against him with all his natural spitefulness. ...
— The Little Duke - Richard the Fearless • Charlotte M. Yonge



Words linked to "Spitefulness" :   malignity, maliciousness, malevolence, spiteful, malevolency, bitchiness



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