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• n  feeling a need to see others suffer
• n  malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty

• The first three stories in this book are pointed by his spitefulness, also a little marred by it.
• Their peevishness, spitefulness and British reserve all mask an inner anguish, conceal layers of loneliness that Larkin peels off with precision.
• Consider what you call his tolerance, his forbearance, his patience with stubbornness, anger, spitefulness, silliness, sulkiness, belligerency, desperateness, unreasonableness .

• malice
• maliciousness
• spite
• venom
• cattiness
• bitchiness
• nastiness

News & Articles

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• WSU researchers tackle 'virtually ignored' psychological study of spite
  ( Washington State University ) In spite of spite's large and small impacts, and the obvious power it can hold on the human psyche, it has been 'virtually ignored' by social, personality and clinical psychologists, Marcus said in a recent paper, 'The Psychology of Spite and the Measurement of Spitefulness,' in the journal Psychological Assessment. David Marcus and colleagues have attempted to ...
  April 23, 2014 - EurekAlert!

Quotes

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• Craig Wing in Melbourne Herald Sun
  It was something I've gotten off my chest and it feels like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders,Wing said. "The thing I want to stress is that I'm happy where I am and I have no bitterness or spitefulness. At the end of my career,...