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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SPITEFULNESS, n. The desire to vex, annoy or mischief, proceeding from irritation; malice; malignity.
It looks more like spitefulness and ill nature, than a diligent search after truth.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: feeling a need to see others suffer [syn: malice, maliciousness, spite, spitefulness, venom]
2: malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty [syn: cattiness, bitchiness, spite, spitefulness, nastiness]

Merriam Webster's

noun see spiteful

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.