Word: spitefully
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...your alternative conception of romance, with its emphasis on spontaneous affection without the pretense of custom. If you skimp on Valentine’s Day, she’s going to feel left out. She’ll wonder why other guys succeed in wooing their dates in spite of the artifice we loathe, and why she is the only girlfriend without a date. It’s no use trying to be her Romeo on some later, less mandatory occasion, because she’ll still doubt your devotion. After all, isn’t she worthy...
...enough of the humiliation in store for them and have jumped on this opportunity to grind axes against the people who seek attention, dress expensively and don’t acknowledge them in the halls. Grand larceny is indeed a crime, but their self-righteousness and sheer spite is unwarranted and tiresome. Given that the two students in question are facing decade-long sentences if convicted, it’s downright grotesque...
...chronic alcohol abuse, she turned Mohammed away. “Is that Gilbert’s?” she asked. “I’m a Liquor World girl myself, ” naming her preferred Somerville-distilled vodka brand. In an act of misdirected spite, Mohammed proceeded to urinate on the Mather salad...
Things only got worse for Valdesolo when, trailing 4-2 in the second game, he reinjured his right ankle, rolling it in spite of the brace he sported. Valdesolo did manage to win the next point, but Bullock then ran the table, capturing the final 14 points of the match as Valdesolo misfired on several shots and, as he grew more desperate and searched in vain for an advantage, became more aggressive in his shot-taking, leading to even more errors...
Money can’t buy you love, though, or so the Beatles said. It’s telling that in spite of her parties and clubs and endless activities, hardly anyone has stepped forward to defend Pomey. Theta’s sisterhood has distanced themselves from their erstwhile president, the priestesses of Isis decline comment, and the Hasty Puddingers—well, they’re the ones who turned her in. What this says about the nature of Harvard “popularity” is enough to make you shudder...