despiteful
Americanadjective
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malicious; spiteful.
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Obsolete. contemptuous; insolent.
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If Hor or Horus was the sun at his height, he too had suffered despiteful usage from his enemies.
From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang
Thus far I had choked down my swelling rage at her faithlessness, her vanity, her despiteful entreatment of my master's plight.
From Helmet of Navarre by Bertha Runkle
It is in the very nature of poetical justice that it satisfies the emotions, and I was not displeased to see affairs take this sudden turn, to view the hard and despiteful heart thus humbled.
From Schwartz: A History From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray by David Christie Murray
The servant, despiteful most like for that he had never availed to drink of the wine, took a great flagon, which when Cisti saw, 'My son,' said he, 'Messer Geri sent thee not to me.'
From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by John Payne
For slight is of three kinds, as stated in Rhet. ii, 2, viz. "contempt," "despiteful treatment," i.e. hindering one from doing one's will, and "insolence": and all motives of anger are reduced to these three.
From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
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