Spiteful
['spaɪtfʊl;-f(ə)l] or ['spaɪtfl]
Definition
(a.) Filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to vex, annoy, or injure; malignant; malicious; as, a spiteful person or act.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Malicious, malignant, malevolent, malign, ill-disposed, evil-minded, ill-natured.
Checker: Mandy
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Malicious, malevolent, malignant, malign, ill-natured, evilminded
ANT:Kind, benevolent, good-natured
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Examples
- I think the corners of his mouth were dreadfully spiteful. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- No; I believe I should have been more spiteful against her still. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Caliphronas darted a spiteful look at the speaker. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Be good enough to go on, Count, said his wife, with a spiteful reference to myself. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It is the nature of womenites to be spiteful. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- These two devils--I ask your pardon; but how else CAN you describe a couple of spiteful women? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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