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Spiteful definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SPITEFUL, a. Filled with spite; having a desire to vex, annoy or injure; malignant; malicious.
--A wayward son, spiteful and wrathful.

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 filled with or showing spite ; malicious • spitefully adverb • spitefulness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. motivated by spite; malevolent. Derivatives: spitefully adv. spitefulness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Spiteful Spite"ful, a. Filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to vex, annoy, or injure; malignant; malicious; as, a spiteful person or act. --Shak. -- Spite"ful*ly, adv. Spite"ful*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Someone who is spiteful does cruel things to hurt people they dislike. He could be spiteful. ...a stream of spiteful telephone calls. = malicious ADJ • spitefully We crept into our little sister's bedroom and spitefully defaced her pop posters. ADV: ADV with v

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Malicious, malignant, malevolent, malign, ill-disposed, evil-minded, ill-natured, hateful, rancorous.

Moby Thesaurus

acrid, acrimonious, antagonistic, antipathetic, bearish, belligerent, bitchy, bitter, cankered, cantankerous, cattish, catty, caustic, churlish, clashing, colliding, conflicting, crabbed, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crusty, cussed, despiteful, disagreeable, evil, excitable, feisty, fractious, full of hate, hateful, hostile, huffish, huffy, invidious, irascible, irritable, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, ornery, perverse, punitive, quarrelsome, rancorous, repugnant, retaliative, retaliatory, retributive, retributory, revengeful, set against, snappish, sore, spleeny, splenetic, testy, ugly, unforgiving, unfriendly, vengeful, venomous, vicious, vindictive, virulent, vitriolic, waspish, wicked