At the same instant the door, already ajar, was spitefully pushed open, disclosing the speaker to view: a woman of splendid form and features, not the less so that both were quivering with indignation.
At length came that black shadow across it; in the person of a man, old enough, as he had spitefully said, to be Blanche Vernon's father!
Samuel had never liked his brother Edward, who seemed almost spitefully to be turning this trick against him in his old age, and he handed on his grievance to John and his wife.
The females, when they come to blows, fight much more spitefully and recklessly than do the males.
How vigorously she knotted those strings to her branch and gathered the ends in and sewed them through and through the structure, jerking them spitefully like a housewife burdened with many cares!
Conflicting currents tore about in all directions, colliding, forming whirlpools, sucks, and boils, and shooting up spitefully into hollow waves which fell aboard as often from leeward as from windward.
Yellow Handkerchief kicked me spitefully in the ribs, and then the trio floundered back through the mud to the junk.
You are at liberty to consider me consumed by envy, green with jealousy, when I here spitefully record that Elliott's ambitious poem reminds me of M.
Slowly but spitefully it mounts from limb to limb, and from one combustible to another, until the whole welkin is a-blaze, and shaking as with thunder!
In the pauses, the actress would spitefullystick out her tongue at him.
Only a very young and a very naive woman can talk like that," spitefully exclaimed Kaczkowska.
Pray for those whospitefully use and persecute you.
Herod and his soldiers treated Him spitefully and mocked Him.
He shall be delivered to the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully treated, and spit on.
This is done by upbraiding words, and properly speaking, occurs when one spitefully reminds a man that one has succored him when he was in need.
Hence if one man says spitefully to another that he is blind, he taunts but does not revile him: whereas if one man calls another a thief, he not only taunts but also reviles him.
When my master filled my feed dish with dainties, instead of gratefully accepting his kindness I would seize the dish and spitefully overturn its contents.
To my great delight I found I could easily pull it out, which I immediately did, and threw it spitefully away.
Ahead of them lay the fog, rising and breaking in soft folds, and behind it men yelled and several shots snapped spitefully on the heavy air.
He threw up his rifle and fired after the retreating figure, jerked the lever spitefully and waited.
The vicious voice resented each one of these good-natured adjectives, as if it had been a gross personal insult to the Widger, and spit them spitefully at her trembling customer, as if they tasted badly in her mouth.
Jutting out of the black, moss-vegetating roof, is an old-maidish looking window, with a dowdy white curtain spitefully tucked up at the side.
She did notspitefully reclaim the straws and strings that would persist in falling to the porch floors, but cheerfully went away in search of more.
That was the truth; the young man had an unmistakable influence over his father, who positively appeared to be behaving more decently and even seemed at times ready to obey his son, though often extremely and even spitefully perverse.
As it was empty he threw it spitefully down into the ashes and looked for a piece of bread.
I declare it was quite dreadful; and I said spitefully to Clara afterwards that I should write by the next post and tell mamma how nicely my finishing education was progressing, for I knew already how they killed sheep.
Presently, the house door secretly opened, and they slowly and spitefully crept forth into the pouring rain.
Then somewhat spitefully she continued, "But I was not aware, Miss Rogers, that you and this Quimby were so intimate!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spitefully" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: harmfully; malevolently; maliciously; malignantly; meanly
