About The Word Despiteful
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Despiteful
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What's The Definition Of Despiteful?
[adj] showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite; "a despiteful fiend"; "a truly spiteful child"; "a vindictive man will look for occasions for resentment"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Despiteful: malicious | spiteful | vindictive Related Terms | Find terms related to Despiteful: acrid | antagonistic | antipathetic | belligerent | bitchy | bitter | cattish | catty | caustic | clashing | colliding | conflicting | detestable | evil | full of hate | hateful | hostile | malevolent | malicious | malignant | quarrelsome | rancorous | repugnant | set against | sore | spiteful | unlikable | venomous | vicious | virulent | vitriolic | wicked See Also | Despiteful In Webster's Dictionary \De*spite"ful\, a. [See {Despite}, and cf.
{Spiteful}.]
Full of despite; expressing malice or contemptuous hate;
malicious. -- {De*spite"ful*ly}, adv. -- {De*spite"ful*ness},
n.
Haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters. --Rom. i.
30.
Pray for them which despitefully use you. --Matt. v.
44.
Let us examine him with despitefulness and fortune.
--Book of
Wisdom ii. 19.
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