Sentence examples for spiteful about from inspiring English sources

His father Ray was his best friend and was openly spiteful about anything gay he saw on television.

There is also something quite spiteful about this government too: a vengeful, nasty streak seems to underpin almost everything they do.

In recorded conversations with advisers, the governor, Rod R. Blagojevich, seemed alternately boastful, flip and spiteful about the Senate choice, which he crassly likened at one point to that of a sports agent shopping around a free agent for the steepest price, a federal affidavit showed.

There is nothing cynical or spiteful about the show's humour.

There was something weirdly and puzzlingly spiteful about how furiously the Maloofs worked to sell their team exclusively to ownership groups who would move them out of Sacramento first to Anaheim, then Virginia Beach, then Seattle.

If your child is inactive and won't care no matter what, be careful how you approach them so they don't become angry or spiteful about what you are asking them to do.

Thus ensconced, with time on their hands, they trade spiteful wisecracks about the glory days.

First, Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham have been making unjustified and spiteful statements about the U. N. Ambassador, Susan Rice (who happens to be both female and African American).

He is one of those spiteful academics about whom Mr. Hynes has written so well in earlier novels, "all of them as amiable and collegial as scorpions".

The court ruled that Jones had been "wilfully blind to the truth" when he made "vicious and spiteful" comments about the family.

As for Spitzer, his gravest charge is that Slater falsely describes him making a spiteful comment about a scientist whose research he deplores.