Sentence examples for spiteful attempt from inspiring English sources

There was a contrived, manipulated, vengeful and spiteful attempt to divert the blame".

It was not only a disaster, it was a contrived, manipulated, vengeful and spiteful attempt to shift the blame".

No, this is a spiteful attempt to stop children enjoying themselves and keep their eyes on the whiteboard for the sake of a Victorian notion of national productivity.

There is golf, there is fun and then there is the 2012 US Open, a pointless and frankly spiteful attempt to humiliate the best golfers in the world.

Angela Eagle, the shadow leader of the house, said: "In my 23 years of parliament I have never seen a government behave in such a grubby and underhand way", adding that this was "a spiteful attempt to get rid of a Speaker that has the temerity to stand up for parliament".

What followed felt like a concerted and spiteful attempt to knock her off her perch.

Cleverly directed by Leo McCarey and expertly played, it depicts the break-up of a worldly, loving Manhattan couple and their mock-spiteful attempts to sabotage remarriages.

And then, back in control: "I felt it was a spiteful and deliberate attempt to denigrate my reputation".

When a therapist accepts full responsibility for preventing suicide, his patient may attempt it when feeling hopeless, defiant or spiteful.

But this spiteful campaign is a wake-up call to voters who must resist future attempts to politicize the courts.

Their attempts to smear this new, popular nationalism and depict it as something spiteful and divisive have lodged in the memories of those engaged in it.