spiteful

spite·ful (sp

adj.

Filled with, prompted by, or showing spite; malicious.

spiteful·ly adv.

spiteful·ness n.

spiteful [ˈspaɪtfʊl]

adj

full of or motivated by spite; vindictive

spitefully adv

spitefulness n

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Adj.

spiteful - showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite; "a despiteful fiend"; "a truly spiteful child"; "a vindictive man will look for occasions for resentment"

despiteful, vindictive

malicious - having the nature of or resulting from malice; "malicious gossip"; "took malicious pleasure in...watching me wince"- Rudyard Kipling

spiteful

adjective malicious, nasty, vindictive, cruel, malignant, barbed, malevolent, venomous, bitchy (informal), snide, rancorous, catty (informal), splenetic, shrewish, ill-disposed, ill-natured He could be spiteful.

Translations

spiteful [ˈspaɪtfʊl] ADJ [person] (= resentful) → rencoroso; (= malicious) → malicioso; [action] → malintencionado
to be spiteful to sb → tratar a algn con rencor, ser rencoroso con algn

spiteful [ˈspaɪtfʊl] adj [person] → malveillant(e); [gossip, remark] → méchant(e)

spiteful

adj → boshaft, gemein; (= gloating also) → schadenfroh, gehässig

spiteful [ˈspaɪtfʊl] adj (person, behaviour) → dispettoso/a; (tongue, remark) → maligno/a, velenoso/a

spiteful → حاقد zlomyslný ondskabsfuld boshaft κακεντρεχής rencoroso ilkeä rancunier pakostan maligno 意地の悪い 악의적인 hatelijk ondskapsfull złośliwy maldoso злобный retsam ซึ่งมีเจตนาร้าย kinci hằn học 怀恨的

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He had a vague notion that the deformity of Wakem's son had some relation to the lawyer's rascality, of which he had so often heard his father talk with hot emphasis; and he felt, too, a half-admitted fear of him as probably a spiteful fellow, who, not being able to fight you, had cunning ways of doing you a mischief by the sly.

The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context

The idea of striking down this spiteful bully passed like lightning through the brain of the tulip-fancier.

The Black Tulip by Dumas, Alexandre View in context

But very soon I saw the reason of it and joined them heartily, for the monkeys, annoyed and wishing to pay us back in our own coin, began to tear the nuts from the trees and cast them at us with angry and spiteful gestures, so that after very little labour our sacks were filled with the fruit which we could not otherwise have obtained.

The Arabian Nights by Lang, Andrew View in context

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