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spitefully
adverb
disapprovinguk /ˈspaɪt.fəl.i/ us /ˈspaɪt.fəl.i/
in a way that shows you want to annoy, upset, or hurt another person, because you feel angry towards them: 恶意地;怀恨在心地
She spitefully removed his name from the invitation list.她恶意地把他的名字从邀请名单上删掉了。
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spiteful
"Still alive anyway," Stephen said spitefully as his mother went downstairs out of earshot.
She spitefully destroyed another child's sandcastle.
I got the dish-cloth and rather spitefully scrubbed Edgar's nose and mouth, affirming it served him right for meddling.
Spitefully, they sat in the front row, glaring at the extraordinary man in front of them and hoping to put him off his stride.
People used to say, spitefully and untruly, that he would have let Dorothy preach his sermons for him if it had been possible.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Unkind, cruel & unfeeling
acerbic
acerbically
acerbity
acidly
anti-cruelty
cold-heartedly
cruel
cruelly
cruelty
cruelty to someone/something
meanly
meanness
mental cruelty
merciless
mercilessly
trenchant
trenchantly
uncharitable
uncharitably
unchristian
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