Sentence examples for spite by from inspiring English sources

Natalia, accompanied by her trash-talking sidekick (played with spastic spite by Amy Schumer), approaches Adam in a café, where he has just met up with Hannah.

I must take issue with "The Politics of Spite," by Paul Krugman (column, Oct. 5), in which he argues that the modern Republican Party has the "emotional maturity of a bratty 13-year-old".

And she was created out of spite by the historically anti-feminist gamers of 4chan.

44 Hull Street, Boston The home in Boston's North End measures 10.4 feet at its widest point and is the subject of local lore, which states that it was created out of spite by a 19th-century soldier who returned from battle to find that his brother had built a house on the majority of the land they had jointly inherited from their father.

In combination with strict m-monotonicity, strict equal-material-payoff-monotonicity essentially rules out extreme forms of spite by putting an upper bound on the malevolence of the DM along the ray m= o.

But the vast majority of misconduct by law enforcement is motivated not by spite but by the belief that the end justifies the means — that it is fine to play fast and loose with the facts if doing so will put a dangerous criminal behind bars.

Don't spite yourself by turning away foreign help.

It's called the Spite House by some because John Hollensbury, the owner of one of the adjacent houses, built it in 1830 to keep horse-drawn wagons and loiterers out of his alley.

She has reacted angrily but I definitely don't think for a moment that anyone has gone out of their way to spite Wendy by leaving her out.

"These charges are baseless, motivated by spite and paid for by promises of anonymity and immunity," he said in a statement.

Then you have a nemesis: not one powered by hate, but by envy, by contrast and by spite.