spightful

What the simple say I care not; what the spightful speak I pass not; only the censure of the conceited I stand unto; that is the mark I aym at; whose good likings if I obtain, I have won my race; if not, I faint in the first attempt, and so lose the quiet of my happy goal.

The Seven Champions of Christendom William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

But whether indeed, in times of heat and faction, the most temperate spirits may sometimes chance to take delight in one that is spightful, and make some use of him; or whether it be that even the most grave and serious persons do for relaxation divert themselves willingly by whiles with a creature that is unlucky, inimical, and gamesome, ” so it was.

Andrew Marvell Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933 1905

What the simple say, I care not; what the spightful speak, I pass not: only the censure of the conceited I stand unto; that is the mark I aym at, whose good likings if I obtain, I have won my race. "

Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. 1832