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How to pronounce spitefulness in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms bitchiness, cattiness, nastiness, spite
Type of malevolence, malevolency, malice
Derivation spiteful
Type Words
Synonyms malice, maliciousness, spite, venom
Type of malevolence, malignity
Derivation spiteful

Examples of spitefulness

spitefulness
He doesn't have time for grudges, cares not to expend energy on spitefulness.
From the stltoday.com
Nor is explosive power the only measure of a volcano's spitefulness.
From the economist.com
Homecare was to be sacrificed because of a game of spitefulness.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
Perhaps it's just a simple case of spitefulness on my part.
From the newsobserver.com
That gritty resolve and spitefulness was apparent even amid the rebel surge that gave anti-regime forces control of what some accounts say is 90% of Tripoli.
From the globalspin.blogs.time.com
Such things as addiction, procrastination, and spitefulness, which don't fit comfortably into the traditional paradigm of economics, are the meat of this new area of behavioral economics.
From the businessweek.com
The primary subplot throughout the hit reality TV show has been the backbiting and spitefulness among contestants even when they must win as a team to avoid getting fired.
From the usatoday.com
It seems to me that bending someone else to your will is the very stuff of sex, by force or neglect if you are male, by spitefulness or nagging or scenes if you are female.
From the guardian.co.uk
More examples
  • Malice: feeling a need to see others suffer
  • Cattiness: malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty