Mohamed Bamba

You gotta deal with a lot of people, the naysayers... but I've always been the guy who kinda just smiles and laughs at it. I use it as constructive criticism to be honest. Whether they're intentionally trying to be kind of spiteful or not, it's constructive criticism because you can't say there's always truth to it but there's definitely something.

American Athlete

Chris Crutcher

If I have any complaints about my youth... one is that many well-meaning adults lied to me. Not spiteful lies with malicious intent but lies designed to prevent emotional and psychological pain - lies told by the people who cared about me most: my parents, teachers, relatives.

American Novelist

Michael Leunig

I have sometimes done cartoons that are hurtful to people - immature, spiteful stuff. Some are so self-indulgent, and some have just failed. I look back and sometimes cringe. But one regret as I get older is that I haven't been radical and wild enough.

Australian Cartoonist

Andrew Eldritch

I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it.

English Musician

James DeGale

Amateur boxing is like a game but you have to be spiteful as a pro. I've got that spiteful streak. I've always had it - just ask my mum and dad.

British Boxer

Jill Scott

People is, I think, it's their nature - some people's nature, in a way, to be angry or jealous or just spiteful about somebody else's blessings.

American Musician

William Regal

There's people that have all these other qualities, but if you've got a spiteful streak, that will take you to realms people have no concept of.

English Businessman

Toni Duggan

There will have been girls my age who stopped playing because of the spiteful things that were said to them.

English Athlete

D. H. Lawrence

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.

English Writer

Karl Pilkington

It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.

British Actor

Used to express negative feelings after being wronged or insulted.

Negative Reaction

Often reflects deep emotional pain or grudges held over time.

Emotional Hurt

Typically isn't unprovoked; there's often a reason behind it.

Provoked Reaction

May imply jealousy or competition as the source of the spite.

Jealous Undertone

Generally considered socially unacceptable behavior.

Socially Discouraged

Can be indirect and not always overtly aggressive.

Subtly Aggressive

 and then tosses them back and forth. And I'm not exaggerating, it is just -- and sometimes they don't eat them, it's just spiteful. And you know, the locals think it's terrible behavior,

Spiteful