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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
  • This is the threat potential given commonalities despite seemingly different developers, and those links to malicious domains.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
  • Newark Mayor Ras Baraka filed a lawsuit against interim U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba on Tuesday, accusing her of malicious prosecution over his arrest outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility last month.
    Alexander Mallin, ABC News, 3 June 2025
Adjective
  • The reason Evin is infamous is because of its terribly cruel high security detention centers that are poorly supervised by the Prison Chief.
    Jeff Kaufman, Time, 30 May 2025
  • But then perhaps that is her unsatisfying but depressingly undeniable point: there is no challenging minds this small, behaviors this cruel, spirits this mean.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 30 May 2025
Adjective
  • There are other objects of worship from the days when Japan’s Christians had to hide from vicious persecution, including a ceramic bottle of holy water from Nakaenoshima, an island where Hidden Christians were martyred in the 1620s.
    Foster Klug, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2025
  • Years before the Kendrick Lamar and Drake imbroglio, Pusha T shared his own vicious diss track against the Canadian hip-hop superstar.
    Matthew Strauss, Pitchfork, 3 June 2025
Adjective
  • Of note: Your Content must not be false, defamatory, misleading or hateful, or infringe any copyright or any other third-party rights or otherwise be unlawful.
    Will Matsuda, New York Times, 23 May 2025
  • The league is focused on four key areas: enhanced technological features to detect hateful comments online; increased emphasis on team, arena and league security measures; reinforcing mental health resources; and alignment of core against hate.
    Doug Feinberg, Chicago Tribune, 18 May 2025
Adjective
  • Well, as referenced above, the United States was coming out of a nasty recession tied to the crisis in the mortgage market.
    Ken Roberts, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025
  • Depending on a team to string together hits — or even contact — to score multiple runs in an inning against pitchers with nasty stuff is a hard way to win.
    Ralph D. Russo, New York Times, 30 May 2025

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“Spiteful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spiteful. Accessed 7 Jun. 2025.

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