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despiteful
adjective
old useuk /dɪˈspaɪt.fəl/ us /dɪˈspaɪt.fəl/
an old word forspiteful: wanting to annoy, upset, or hurt another person, especially in a small way, because you feel angry towards them:
These are despiteful and intolerable wrongs!
They used threatening language in a most despiteful manner.
I never want to hear another despiteful word about him.
They believed that God protected them from their despiteful and deadly enemies.
His despiteful heart is full of malice and is motivated by spite.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Unkind, cruel & unfeeling
acerbic
acerbically
acerbity
acidly
anti-cruelty
cold-heartedly
cruel
cruelly
cruelty
cruelty to someone/something
meanness
mental cruelty
merciless
mercilessly
mordant
trenchant
trenchantly
uncharitable
uncharitably
unchristian
Synonym
malicious
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