spiteful

  • 21spiteful — adjective Date: 15th century filled with or showing spite ; malicious • spitefully adverb • spitefulness noun …

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  • 22spiteful — adjective Filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to vex, annoy, or injure; malignant; malicious …

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  • 23spiteful — Synonyms and related words: acrid, acrimonious, antagonistic, antipathetic, bearish, belligerent, bitchy, bitter, cankered, cantankerous, cattish, catty, caustic, churlish, clashing, colliding, conflicting, crabbed, cranky, cross, cross grained,… …

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  • 24spiteful — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. hateful, malicious, resentful, vindictive; see angry , cruel 1 , 2 . See Synonym Study at vindictive . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. malicious, viperous, venomous, vindictive, vengeful, nasty, resentful, mean, catty …

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  • 25spiteful — spite·ful || spaɪtfÊŠl adj. filled with spite, malicious, desiring to annoy or irritate …

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  • 26spiteful — adjective showing or caused by malice. Derivatives spitefully adverb spitefulness noun …

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  • 27spiteful — a. Malicious, malignant, malevolent, malign, ill disposed, evil minded, ill natured, hateful, rancorous …

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  • 28spiteful — adj vengeful, revengeful, unforgiving, vindictive, retributive, retaliative, retaliatory, recriminatory, out to get even, avenging; mean, cruel, malevolent, malicious, Archaic. despiteous; wanton, malignant, maleficent, malefic; antagonistic, ill …

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  • 29spiteful — spite·ful …

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  • 30spiteful — [ˈspaɪtf(ə)l] adj deliberately trying to upset someone or cause problems for them spitefully adv …

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