Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Despiteful.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Despiteful; malicious; furious.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Feeling or showing despite; malicious; angry to excess; cruel; contemptuous.

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  • adjective Full of contempt or ill will; opprobrious; insulting.
  • adjective Dispiteous.

Etymologies

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From Anglo-Norman despitous

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Examples

  • Therefore, I tell you that the proud, despiteous rich man, though he knoweth it not, is in hell already, because he hath no fellow; and he that hath so hardy a heart that in sorrow he thinketh of fellowship, his sorrow is soon but a story of sorrow -- a little change in the life that knows not ill. "

    A Dream of John Ball and a King's Lesson 1886

  • Therefore, I tell you that the proud, despiteous rich man, though he knoweth it not, is in hell already, because he hath no fellow; and he that hath so hardy a heart that in sorrow he thinketh of fellowship, his sorrow is soon but a story of sorrow -- a little change in the life that knows not ill. "

    A Dream of John Ball; and, a king's lesson William Morris 1865

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