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Noun: spitefulness  spIt-fûl-nus
  1. Feeling a need to see others suffer
    - malice, maliciousness, spite, venom
     
  2. Malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty
    - cattiness, bitchiness, spite, nastiness

Derived forms: spitefulnesses

See also: spiteful

Type of: malevolence, malevolency, malice, malignity

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