despiteful
Americanadjective
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malicious; spiteful.
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Obsolete. contemptuous; insolent.
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Were His enemies never so many, and never so despiteful against Him, yet He sall rule in the midst of them.
From The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation by Kerr, James
He then set up his counter-challenge, and in one hour afterwards Johnson arrogantly accepted it, “in a most despiteful and disgraceful manner.”
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac
Driven by despiteful wrong she takes her seat, In lowly grief, at Jove's eternal feet.
From Mosaics of Grecian History by Willson, Marcius
Further, as a Castilian gentleman, do you agree with the author’s most despiteful entreatment of that sweet sex for whose sake all romances were written?
From Legends & Romances of Spain by Spence, Lewis
O false death, how injurious and despiteful hast thou been to me!
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
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