In the weakness of the moment (for it was nothing else), I was on the point of matching her petty spitefulness by spitefulness quite as petty on my side.
There was more of my small spitefulnessin this, I suppose.
Anger should be reserved for things like spitefulnessand dishonesty and cruelty.
In sane and sound health we realise that we are not, as a rule, the objects of the malignity and spitefulness of others.
Wilmot did not notice the spitefulness in her voice.
There was not a touch of spitefulness in Rhoda's nature, and she had no wish to humiliate Pauline; but the humorous side of the situation was thoroughly enjoyed by her.
Lady Janet, whose natural spitefulnesswas a most catholic feeling, began to fear that Lady Kilgoff had acquired such an influence over Cashel that she could mould him to any course she pleased,--even a marriage.
He regretted the spitefulness that had led him to write in another name than hers because she had refused to support him.
But the train seemed to quicken its pace out of mere spitefulness just as they reached wonderful market streets with flaring lights over little carts all filled with things to buy.
To which the princess replied: "I very willingly receive the assurance you give me of having had no part in the spitefulness that was published, deferring all to the order the queen has given me.
It seems a sad kind of spitefulness in nature that persons should have so much trouble to bear when they are tired and faint-hearted and only wish for repose.
This spitefulness on the lady's part was not wholly devoid of excuse.
It is the essence of spitefulness to say that nothing can be a benefit which does not cause some inconvenience to the giver.
There is no benefit so great that spitefulness can pick no holes in it, none so paltry that it cannot be made more of by friendly interpretation.
And so, he is proof against the spitefulness of fortune and the baseness or violence of man.
And to his fevered eye all stately rank seems at last but a precipice overhanging the abyss, a mark for treacherous envy or the spitefulness of Fortune.
Then, putting on his hat and grasping his umbrella, with an air of spitefulness he was unable to conceal, he hurried down the stone steps, scrambled upon the back of his mule, and rode away in sullen silence.
