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adj. - Showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt.

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Usage examples (28)
  • We suffer not only the insults of a single nation, but despiteful use by all idolaters.
  • He saw in her but the despiteful, revengeful handmaid; he forgot that she was an injured wife -- a neglected mother.
  • O false death, how injurious and despiteful hast thou been to me!
  • It is true, the triumph of your evil star is exceedingly despiteful.
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