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despitefully
adverb
old useuk /dɪˈspaɪt.fəl.i/ us /dɪˈspaɪt.fəl.i/
an old word forspitefully: in a way that shows you want to annoy, upset, or hurt another person, because you feel angry towards them:
God told us to do good to those who do evil, and to pray for those who despitefully persecute us.
The invading army treated them despitefully.
It is intolerable to be insulted and despitefully used in this way.
Those who despitefully use us must be evil men.
I would never do that wilfully or despitefully.
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
maliciously
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