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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DESPITEFUL, a. Full of spite; malicious; malignant; as a despiteful enemy.
Hater of God, despiteful, proud, boasters. Romans 1.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite; "a despiteful fiend"; "a truly spiteful child"; "a vindictive man will look for occasions for resentment" [syn: despiteful, spiteful, vindictive]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 15th century expressing malice or hate • despitefully adverb • despitefulness noun

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Despiteful De*spite"ful, a. [See Despite, and cf. Spiteful.] Full of despite; expressing malice or contemptuous hate; malicious. -- De*spite"ful*ly, adv. -- De*spite"ful*ness, n. Haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters. --Rom. i. 30. Pray for them which despitefully use you. --Matt. v. 44. Let us examine him with despitefulness and fortune. --Book of Wisdom ii. 19.

Moby Thesaurus

acrid, antagonistic, antipathetic, belligerent, bitchy, bitter, cattish, catty, caustic, clashing, colliding, conflicting, detestable, evil, full of hate, hateful, hostile, malevolent, malicious, malignant, quarrelsome, rancorous, repugnant, set against, sore, spiteful, unlikable, venomous, vicious, virulent, vitriolic, wicked