despitefully
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Jesus said, “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you.”
From Time • Jun. 15, 2016
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
From Time Magazine Archive
Never in her life had she been so despitefully used.
From The Rider of Golden Bar by White, William Patterson
The floating fur-trader with whom we exchanged the courtesies of the wilderness had indeed been despitefully used.
From The Adventures of John Jewitt Only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston During a Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Indians of Nootka Sound in Vancouver Island by Jewitt, John Rodgers
Jesus said, 'Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, pray for them that despitefully use you and persecute you.'
From Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war by Lind-af-Hageby, L. (Lizzy)
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