despiteouslyadv.
In a despiteous manner, with despite: (a) contemptuously; insultingly; (b) with bitter ill-will or enmity; spitefully, cruelly, pitilessly, mercilessly.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > [adverb] > contemptuously
lightlyOE
scornlichec1300
despitouslyc1320
hokerfullyc1330
scornfullyc1380
despisantly1389
deignouslyc1440
scorninglyc1440
contemningly1471
a-scornc1485
disdaininglyc1485
despiteouslya1500
disdainouslya1513
disdainishly?1529
a-swash1530
contemptuously1530
disdainfullya1533
despitefully1535
disdainedly1535
contemptibly1577
snuffingly1577
floutingly1580
despisingly1591
slightly1601
indignantly1602
contemptedly1605
overly1610
slightfully1627
despicably1637
slightingly1654
contemnibly1702
sneeringly1711
slightily1740
snottily1864
sniffingly1873
sufficiently1893
sniffily1902
pooh-poohingly1903
dismissively1922
the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > spitefulness > [adverb]
despitouslyc1320
maliciouslya1325
doggedlyc1380
spitouslya1387
venomly1387
spitousc1400
enviouslyc1430
venomously1449
sputouslyc1450
evilfullyc1475
despitefully1487
despiteouslya1500
unhappily1509
peevishly?1529
spitefully1532
cankeredly1535
viperiously1538
malignly1543
sinisterlyc1550
doggishly1576
cankerly1580
viperously1587
sinistruouslya1615
despitely1619
viciously1841
dolefully1880
cattishly1913
cattily1924
bitchily1938
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > unkindness > spite, malice > [adverb]
maliciouslya1325
despitouslyc1374
doggedlyc1380
spitouslya1387
venomly1387
spitousc1400
venomously1449
sputouslyc1450
evilfullyc1475
despitefully1487
despiteouslya1500
enviously1508
unhappily1509
peevishly?1529
spitefully1532
cankeredly1535
viperiously1538
malignly1543
sinisterlyc1550
to spite (one)a1575
doggishly1576
cankerly1580
viperously1587
sinistruouslya1615
despitely1619
waspishly1684
viciously1841
waspily1854
dolefully1880
cattishly1913
cattily1924
bitchily1961
bitchingly1970
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > [adverb]
heterlya1225
cruellya1340
despitouslyc1374
cruentlyc1380
harageouslyc1450
despitefully1487
despiteouslya1500
beastly?1518
butcherly?1560
savagely1563
bitterly1611
despitely1619
savagiously1625
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xv. 257 Eche of hem hurte and wounded other dispiteously.
a1513 W. Dunbar Ballat Passioun in Poems (1998) I. 35 Dispituouslie syn thai did him smyt.
a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) i. xix. sig. E.iii Yt so dispiteously put hym to his paine.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 4744 The grekes..With speris full dispitiously spurnit at the yates.]
1563 T. Sackville in W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) Buckingham xxvi Howe Lord Hastings..Dispiteously was murdered and opprest.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. viii. 491/1 Whom..hee had caused to bee dispiteously dragged at horse-heeles.
a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 26 The Devill, out of malice and envie, had despiteously empoysoned all mankind.
1808 W. Scott Marmion v. xxi. 273 Lord Marmion said despiteously.
1885 Sat. Rev. 18 July 87 We should be sorry to be thought to write despiteously of Sir Philip Perring.
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