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Definition of Despiteous
1. a. Feeling or showing despite; malicious; angry to excess; cruel; contemptuous.
Definition of Despiteous
1. Adjective. Full of contempt or ill will; opprobrious; insulting. ¹
2. Adjective. Dispiteous. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Despiteous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Despiteous
Literary usage of Despiteous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"... their bodies cast God wot where, by the cruel ambition of their unnatural
uncle and his despiteous tormentors: which things on every part well pondered, ..."
2. The Warner Library by Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1917)
"... their bodies cast God wot where, by the cruel ambition of their unnatural
uncle and his despiteous tormentors: which things on every part well pondered, ..."
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