His book challenged Galileo in the most spiteful way.

It lost in a spiteful, self-destructive way that reflected a persistent, deep-rooted bitterness that seems to run through the organization's veins.

Being told in a spiteful, truculent way that you're not perfect rings louder bells for you than it would for most.

The relentlessly spiteful and sadistic way in which this is explored by the movie may have influenced its cool reception in 1969.

He stood on the other side of the wall, laughing at her, but not in a spiteful way.

I don't deny that I am a mischievous woman when I find myself affronted, quite capable of taking my revenge in my own small spiteful way.

She looked almost regretful, though Halanna had driven her to despair with her snide comments and spiteful ways.

She revenged herself, on me, in a variety of ingeniously spiteful ways.

I don't see that anyone is 'telling' anyone what to do, but a parent asking a public figure not to use a word that has been used against a member of her family in a spiteful way.

She knew of the harridans of Quail and their spiteful ways.