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Definition of Spitefulnesses
1. spitefulness [n] - See also: spitefulness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spitefulnesses
Literary usage of Spitefulnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1899)
"... a butt for their coarse jests and dull-witted railleries, and sometimes the
victim of small spitefulnesses at the hands of Canty and Hugo when the ..."
2. The Writings of Mark Twain by Mark Twain (1899)
"... a butt for their coarse jests and dull-witted railleries, and sometimes the
victim of small spitefulnesses at the hands of Canty and Hugo when the ..."
3. Progress and Prejudice by Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) (1854)
""Some sayer of clever spitefulnesses, — who was it? — Horace Walpole, I think —
used to say, that he hoped he might die before Capability Brown; ..."
4. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Virgil, Charles Anthon, C. Knipe, New York (State). Banking Dept, Emerson Willard Keyes, Mark Twain, Claire Giannini Hoffman (1909)
"... a butt for their coarse jests and dull-witted railleries, and sometimes the
victim of small spitefulnesses at the hands of Canty and Hugo when ..."
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