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Despiteful

adjective
1.
Showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite.  Synonyms: spiteful, vindictive.  "A truly spiteful child" , "A vindictive man will look for occasions for resentment"






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"Despiteful" Quotes from Famous Books



... Rebuke not thy neighbour at the wine, and despise him not in his mirth: give him no despiteful words, and press not upon him with urging ...
— Deuteronomical Books of the Bible - Apocrypha • Anonymous

... that was wont to be sometime, but it is now all down, and men have made a little receipt, beside a pillar of that church, to receive the offerings of pilgrims. And the Saracens keep that place full dearly, for the profit that they have thereof. And they be full wicked Saracens and cruel, and more despiteful than in any other place, and have destroyed all the churches. There nigh is Gabriel's Well, where our Lord was wont to bathe him, when he was young, and from that well bare he water often-time to his mother. And in that ...
— The Travels of Sir John Mandeville • Author Unknown



Words linked to "Despiteful" :   malicious, spiteful



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