Sentence examples for spiteful sense from inspiring English sources

This is what he said of the inevitable Tory charge that he is indulging in the politics of envy: I do not [suggest] this – and this is one of the reasons why I have never agreed with leftist politics – out of some spiteful sense of revenge.

I only hope that it is true, and that the consequence of this excommunication is that Fred finds himself frightened and alone on his deathbed now, abandoned by the only people he personally shared his spiteful and depraved sense of mission with.

So that is the sort of man who runs the Premier League – petulant, spiteful, imperious, devoid of a sense of proportion, and nakedly contemptuous of anyone trying to represent the ordinary fan.

Siegfried Lipiner, one of Mahler's favourite intellectual adversaries, with whom the young Alma discussed Plato's Symposium, might have empathised with her liking for Nietzsche, but he found her "spiteful, vain and overbearing... lacking in warmth, devoid of naturalness, sincerity and good sense".

But putting common sense to one side, what cheers me is that in contrast to the manipulative, spiteful and all-controlling Mr Armstrong, Wiggo is doing the decent thing.

With no one in his household able to knock some sense into him, Orgon falls deeper and deeper under Tartuffe's spell until, in a spiteful rage, he disinherits his son, signs over all his assets and even grants Tartuffe ownership of his home.

All possessed common sense, intelligence, pride, and a love of practical jokes and intrigue; they were, however, often quarrelsome, cowardly, envious, spiteful, vindictive, and treacherous.

He's spiteful.

"Selfish, spiteful and cynical".

But mainly spiteful.

"The spiteful troll" = Al Franken.