- spiteful
- adjective Date: 15th century filled with or showing spite ; malicious • spitefully adverb • spitefulness noun
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Spiteful — Spite ful, a. Filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to vex, annoy, or injure; malignant; malicious; as, a spiteful person or act. Shak. {Spite ful*ly}, adv. {Spite ful*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
spiteful — I adjective acrimonious, antagonistic, antipathetic, belligerent, caustic, contrary, despiteful, envenomed, evil minded, froward, harsh, hateful, hostile, ill disposed, ill intentioned, ill natured, inimical, invidious, lividus, malevolent,… … Law dictionary
spiteful — mid 15c., from SPITE (Cf. spite) + FUL (Cf. ful). Related: Spitefully; spitefulness … Etymology dictionary
spiteful — *malignant, *malicious, malevolent, malign Analogous words: rancorous, antipathetic, antagonistic, hostile (see corresponding nouns at ENMITY): *vindictive, revengeful, vengeful … New Dictionary of Synonyms
spiteful — [adj] hurtful, nasty accidentally on purpose*, angry, barbed, catty*, cruel, cussed*, despiteful, dirty, evil, hateful, ill disposed, illnatured, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, ornery*, rancorous, snide, spleenful, splenetic,… … New thesaurus
spiteful — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ showing or caused by malice. DERIVATIVES spitefully adverb spitefulness noun … English terms dictionary
spiteful — [spīt′fəl] adj. full of or showing spite; purposefully annoying; malicious SYN. VINDICTIVE spitefully adv. spitefulness n … English World dictionary
Spiteful — Supermarine Spiteful Supermarine Spiteful … Wikipédia en Français
spiteful — spitefully, adv. spitefulness, n. /spuyt feuhl/, adj. full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child. [1400 50; late ME; see SPITE, FUL] Syn. vengeful, mean, cruel, rancorous. SPITEFUL, REVENGEFUL,… … Universalium
spiteful — adj. spiteful to + inf. (it was spiteful of him to say that) * * * [ spaɪtf(ə)l] spiteful to + inf. (it was spiteful of him to say that) … Combinatory dictionary
spiteful — [[t]spa͟ɪtfʊl[/t]] ADJ GRADED Someone who is spiteful does cruel things to hurt people they dislike. He could be spiteful. ...a stream of spiteful telephone calls. Syn: malicious Derived words: spitefully ADV GRADED ADV with v We crept into our… … English dictionary
