"pleasure" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Even before she came up to him, she saw that Roger was already sulking, and it gave her a vindictive little pleasure to say: 'Roger, may I introduce the Marques de Santiago y Machado?
- As the great day approached, all the tyranny that was in him came to the surface; he seemed to take a vindictive pleasure in punishing the least shortcomings.
- It gave her a feeling of vindictive pleasure.
- The next day, Joyce takes Buffy to see Principal Snyder, who takes vindictive pleasure in making it difficult for Buffy to re-enter Sunnydale High School.
- Try as Harry might, he couldn't get his Confusing Concoction to thicken, and Snape, standing watch with an air of vindictive pleasure, scribbled something that looked suspiciously like a zero onto his notes before moving away.
- Her eyes brightened with vindictive pleasure as they discovered Mercy sitting alone at the further end of the room.
- I glared at the queen, who laughed with vindictive pleasure as the torturer came back with the heated iron, its glow dulled to a sullen red.
- "But Herodias sat smiling, eyes gleaming with vindictive pleasure."
- He had said as much from his pulpit and had noted the agreeing nods from his parishioners with a grim, almost vindictive pleasure that was really not much like him.
- She spoke with vindictive pleasure.
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