Dictionary

despiteful en · ADJ

Etymology

From despite + -ful.

Meanings

1. (archaic) Full of despite; expressing malice or contemptuous hate.
   • The Londoners seeing that they could get no vantage against the duke, who was without their reach, to bewreak their anger they took his arms, which in most despiteful wise they hanged up in the open places of the city in sign of reproach, as for a traitor; […] 1841, John Foxe, The History of John Wickliffe, page 21:

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Deriveds

despitefulness · despitefully