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Recent Examples of spiteful Share [Findings] Unaffiliated voters are growing more spiteful toward both Democrats and Republicans. Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025 Iannucci may spin stories of spiteful people, but Iannucci the person is different. John Baldoni, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025 This sequel was similar in its angry, bleak tone but amped up with little of the polish that some in Washington had hoped would signal Trump’s second term might be less spiteful than the first go-around. Philip Elliott, TIME, 20 Jan. 2025 The end of the JCPOA made a spiteful Iran even more aggressive. Ali Vaez, Foreign Affairs, 8 May 2023 See All Example Sentences for spiteful
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spiteful
Adjective
  • These attacks work by causing a software package to access the wrong component dependency, for instance by publishing a malicious package and giving it the same name as the legitimate one but with a later version stamp.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 29 Apr. 2025
  • The best way to safeguard yourself from malicious links that install malware, potentially accessing your private information, is to have antivirus software installed on all your devices.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 27 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But this is the cruel and unreasonable state of this Administration's deportation policy.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Such evidence could support the view that incessant loud noise amounts to torture or cruel treatment towards cetaceans, in turn galvanizing support for a new right to be free from such harm.
    David Gruber, Time, 24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Sandhagen dispatched Edgar with a vicious flying knee 28 seconds into that bout.
    Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
  • In its most memorable moment, Walker dispatches a particularly vicious henchwoman with a harpoon to the neck.
    Mike Miller, EW.com, 26 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The antisemitic charge is a slur in its own right, tainting a broad range of institutions with a single hateful brush.
    Jonathan Zimmerman, New York Daily News, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Prater, a graduate student in her first season with the Bulldogs, appeared to disable her comment section on some of her Instagram posts after facing an influx of hateful messages following the devastating injury Watkins suffered in the first half of their second round game.
    Paulina Dedaj, FOXNews.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Mingyang took the center of the Octagon from the beginning, landed hard leg kicks, and opened a nasty gash on Smith’s forehead with a step-in elbow.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
  • With a triple-digit heater and a nasty slider, he’s always been a tantalizing talent.
    Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025

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“Spiteful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spiteful. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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