Totius' metaphor, it must be said, has a great deal more venom and
spitefulness in it than either Sappho's or Catullus' images.
She also encourages readers to see cats' more confounding behaviors as the problem-solving efforts they are, rather than attribute them to aloofness,
spitefulness, etc.
Divided parents notoriously have difficulty with the ideal of shared decision-making due to the animosity, poor communication, and
spitefulness that often accompanies the breakdown of relationships.
I'll even forgive Kady's
spitefulness which erupted at a new girl as partner Scott left for a date with her: "You're a c***!
Post 2010, the Regional Development Agencies and Government Offices were one of the first victims of Eric Pickles'
spitefulness as he played to the Tory blue-rinse crowd.
"If the stoppage comes, Liam is one of the best at locking on and finishing the job; he's got that
spitefulness in him and he takes great pleasure in hurting people.
It's a classic story of love triumphing over
spitefulness, which is sure to delight anyone who sees it.
Machiavellianism is also associated with a range of negative personality characteristics such as narcissism and psychopathy forming the "Dark Triad" (O'Boyle, Forsyth, Banks, & McDaniel, 2012), and
spitefulness (Marcus, Zeigler-Hill, Mercer, & Norris, 2014).
I think there's a kind of ungraciousness in this country, a
spitefulness, if you like.
This appears to be an essential attribute of malign occult beings; and the "corporate authoritarianism" manifested in the present-day university environment sometimes involves bullying tactics, which can slide all too easily into
spitefulness and malice (Southall and Cobbing 13; Thornton 161-64).
Levine, "Modeling altruism and
spitefulness in experiments," Review of Economic Dynamics, vol.
The draft should have been tossed into the trash, having cleared the writer's mind of
spitefulness and prepared the way for real analysis.
Her journey into the past is punctuated by half-formed thoughts or, rather, inchoate longings that are felt only as physical appetites and are articulated (barely) through a language in which resentment and futile
spitefulness are the strongest sentiments, flowing "smoothly over her mind, hardening into a crust" (211).
