Sentence examples for spiteful effort from inspiring English sources

When thirteen unidentified young women are found dead in a container at the docks, McNulty successfully makes a spiteful effort to place the murders within the jurisdiction of his former commander.

The Republicans themselves, on the other hand, wasted the country's time and energy with their spiteful efforts to reverse the election of Bill Clinton as president by trying to remove him from office for personal acts and minor legal indiscretions that in no way merited his removal.

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

This spiteful policy will cause hardship and distress.

Deep down, we're all inherently spiteful beings, and ridiculing the efforts of others is sometimes what the soul needs.

Spiteful things - amplified into shrieks like all spitefulness by social networks - will be murmured about Jews.

At the same time, Mr. Updike's self-imposed quota of producing a new book nearly every year has resulted in some cringe-making efforts that attest to what the author himself has called a tendency to think smaller, "more spiteful and timorous thoughts" in recent years.

He's spiteful.

"Selfish, spiteful and cynical".

But mainly spiteful.

"The spiteful troll" = Al Franken.