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spitefully

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spite·ful  (sptfl)
adj.
Filled with, prompted by, or showing spite; malicious.
spiteful·ly adv.
spiteful·ness n.
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Adv.1.spitefully - in a maliciously spiteful manner; "pray for them that despitefully use us"
despitefully
2.spitefully - with spite; in a spiteful manner; "he answered his accusers spitefully"
Translations
spitefully [ˈspaɪtfəlɪ] ADV (= out of resentment) → por despecho
she said spitefully → dijo, con malicia
spitefully [ˈspaɪtfʊli] adv [say, reply] → avec méchanceté
spitefully
adv → boshaft, gemein; (= gloatingly) → gehässig; spitefully she told him … → voll Bosheit erzählte sie ihm …; (= gloatingly) → voll Schadenfreude erzählte sie ihm …
spitefully [ˈspaɪtfəlɪ] adv (see adj) → dispettosamente, malignamente
spitefully [ˈspaɪtfəlɪ] adv (see adj) → dispettosamente, malignamente


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to be avenged on her Brother, and spitefully accused him of having, as a boy, made use of that which belonged only to girls.
Fables by Aesop View in context
For forty years together it will remember its injury down to the smallest, most ignominious details, and every time will add, of itself, details still more ignominious, spitefully teasing and tormenting itself with its own imagination.
Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
When she wanted to be agitated, Nicholas and his health would be the pretext, and when she felt a need to speak spitefully, the pretext would be Countess Mary.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
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