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Definition of spiteful in English: spitefuladjective ˈspʌɪtfʊlˈspʌɪtf(ə)lˈspaɪtfəl Showing or caused by malice. the teachers made spiteful little jokes about me Example sentencesExamples - She had consistently refuted what she claimed to be malicious allegations from spiteful colleagues.
- Nobody likes Jenn, at least in my spiteful and confused little mind.
- He despised Adamea for it and it had turned him to spiteful hate and deep bitterness.
- I wasn't sure whether she was telling the truth or not, or whether she was spiteful and making up bitter lies.
- These creatures have the reputation of being smelly, vicious, spiteful and unreliable.
- Half the people will be happy with whatever outcome you get, the other half will be bitter and spiteful.
- A spiteful, vicious corner of my mind wants to yell so that they know how catty she is being.
- It had been a spiteful encounter where each glove impact was welcomed with rancorous applause.
- I have an active dislike of her because she's either very stupid or deliberately, maliciously, spiteful.
- Granted, she thought her sister did an awful, malicious, and spiteful job of it, but still!
- The early exchanges were spiteful, nasty and never fully controlled by referee Lucilio Batista.
- Besides, you will already know there is not a vindictive or a spiteful bone in a Lab's body.
- Their charming arrogance suddenly sounded a little spiteful.
- The aristocratic families at the heart of the new scandals are not loyal and dutiful - they are vicious, greedy and spiteful.
- The only way this expulsion can be interpreted is as a spiteful and vindictive move.
- Eclair's writing is spiteful and vindictive, her agenda unreconstructed and male.
- But you know, my heart just sank too deep knowing how horribly spiteful, cruel and unproductive this issue is.
- Mandela cheerfully served a prison sentence that would have left Jesus bitter and spiteful.
- But his remarks about Israel are as spiteful as they are ignorant.
- Having garnered publicity as spokesman for social and family affairs, he regarded the marine portfolio as a spiteful demotion.
Synonyms malicious, mean, nasty, cruel, unkind, unfriendly, snide, hurtful, wounding, barbed, cutting, hateful, ill-natured, bitter, venomous, poisonous, acid, hostile, rancorous, malevolent, evil-intentioned, baleful, vindictive, vengeful, vitriolic, vicious, splenetic, malign, malignant, bilious defamatory informal bitchy, catty literary malefic, maleficent rare squint-eyed
Derivatives adverb ˈspʌɪtfʊliˈspʌɪtf(ə)li The tabs noted that virtually an entire hour-long episode is dedicated to the consequences of a bowel movement that young Philip spitefully, desperately deposited on the desk of his village schoolteacher. Example sentencesExamples - To be honest, it would feel spitefully delightful to withhold my name from the church's accounting of souls, considering the misery it has inflicted on my kind.
- Betty was ‘needy’, craving her daughter's affection to such an extent that Lulu, then still Marie, spitefully withheld it.
- While the Arab media mockingly and spitefully spread the news of this expected development, Iraqis were scratching their heads in confusion.
- I have zero tolerance of such behaviour and have been known to scowl as spitefully as I can at the perpetrators, especially if they make eye-contact with me, or, god forbid, smile at me.
noun ˈspʌɪtfʊlnəsˈspʌɪtf(ə)lnəsˈspaɪtfəlnəs The love and respect my mother held for my father turned now to hatred and spitefulness. Example sentencesExamples - ‘They were acting out of spitefulness and hatred’, said the plain-speaking Archbishop in an interview with our reporter.
- I have never seen O'Brien descend to such a depth of petulance and spitefulness that he reached last night.
- Absorbed by the character both physically and expressively she capably displays a repellent degree of manipulation and spitefulness and there is an almost diabolical edge to her performance.
- Both leaders became prime ministers of this land, as a testimony to their immaturity and spitefulness.
Definition of spiteful in US English: spitefuladjectiveˈspaɪtfəlˈspītfəl Showing or caused by malice. the teachers made spiteful little jokes about me Example sentencesExamples - She had consistently refuted what she claimed to be malicious allegations from spiteful colleagues.
- Eclair's writing is spiteful and vindictive, her agenda unreconstructed and male.
- The aristocratic families at the heart of the new scandals are not loyal and dutiful - they are vicious, greedy and spiteful.
- The early exchanges were spiteful, nasty and never fully controlled by referee Lucilio Batista.
- These creatures have the reputation of being smelly, vicious, spiteful and unreliable.
- I have an active dislike of her because she's either very stupid or deliberately, maliciously, spiteful.
- But you know, my heart just sank too deep knowing how horribly spiteful, cruel and unproductive this issue is.
- Mandela cheerfully served a prison sentence that would have left Jesus bitter and spiteful.
- Besides, you will already know there is not a vindictive or a spiteful bone in a Lab's body.
- But his remarks about Israel are as spiteful as they are ignorant.
- Their charming arrogance suddenly sounded a little spiteful.
- It had been a spiteful encounter where each glove impact was welcomed with rancorous applause.
- Having garnered publicity as spokesman for social and family affairs, he regarded the marine portfolio as a spiteful demotion.
- He despised Adamea for it and it had turned him to spiteful hate and deep bitterness.
- Half the people will be happy with whatever outcome you get, the other half will be bitter and spiteful.
- Granted, she thought her sister did an awful, malicious, and spiteful job of it, but still!
- Nobody likes Jenn, at least in my spiteful and confused little mind.
- A spiteful, vicious corner of my mind wants to yell so that they know how catty she is being.
- I wasn't sure whether she was telling the truth or not, or whether she was spiteful and making up bitter lies.
- The only way this expulsion can be interpreted is as a spiteful and vindictive move.
Synonyms malicious, mean, nasty, cruel, unkind, unfriendly, snide, hurtful, wounding, barbed, cutting, hateful, ill-natured, bitter, venomous, poisonous, acid, hostile, rancorous, malevolent, evil-intentioned, baleful, vindictive, vengeful, vitriolic, vicious, splenetic, malign, malignant, bilious |