despiteful
Americanadjective
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malicious; spiteful.
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Obsolete. contemptuous; insolent.
adjective
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But then brust forth the venome which before lurked; then might they not conteine their despiteful voices, but with open mouthes did crie: we will not haue suche a one to reigne ouer vs.
From The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women by Edward Arber
Prime youth lasts not, age will follow And make white those tresses yellow; Wrinkled face, for looks delightful, Shall acquaint the dame despiteful.
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
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
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
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 Isaac Disraeli
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