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Definition of Spiteful
1. Adjective. Showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite. "A vindictive man will look for occasions for resentment"
Similar to: Malicious
Derivative terms: Spitefulness, Spitefulness, Vindictiveness
Definition of Spiteful
1. a. Filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to vex, annoy, or injure; malignant; malicious; as, a spiteful person or act.
Definition of Spiteful
1. Adjective. Filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to vex, annoy, or injure; malignant; malicious ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spiteful
1. malicious [adj -FULLER, -FULLEST] - See also: malicious
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spiteful
Literary usage of Spiteful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1868)
"... still intent on harming the spiteful, CHAP, sent against her a shower of
rockets, which wounded ' Commander Kynaston, and Baillie, one of his mid- ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"Only once, when, by a direct appeal to her, silence was impossible, she said,
with a marked spiteful- ness, "You are talking of something ..."
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