Meaning | showing malicious ill ... / ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite / spite. |
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Examples | - "a despiteful fiend"
- "a truly spiteful child"
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Synonyms | despiteful, vindictive |
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Broader | malicious | Having the nature of or resulting from malice |
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Spanish | malévolo, maligno, rencoroso, venenoso |
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Catalan | malèvol, maliciós, maligne, rancuniós |
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Nouns | spitefulness | malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty |
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spitefulness | feeling a need to see others suffer |
Adverbs | spitefully | with spite |
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spitefully | in a maliciously spiteful manner |