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 .
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Examples
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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. "
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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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