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despiteful

despiteful adjective: full of despite; expressing malice or contemptuous hate.

Adjective

despiteful (comparative more despiteful, superlative most despiteful)

  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

Forms of despiteful

comparativemore despiteful
superlativemost despiteful
alternative formdespightful
alternative formdespightfull

Origin of despiteful

From despite + -ful.

Words formed from despiteful

Questions about despiteful

What does despiteful mean?
Despiteful means full of despite; expressing malice or contemptuous hate.
What part of speech is despiteful?
Despiteful is an adjective.

Words near despiteful in the dictionary

  1. despite
  2. despite of
  3. despite oneself
  4. despite that
  5. despited
  6. despiteful
  7. despitefully
  8. despitefulness
  9. despiteous
  10. despiteously
  11. despites

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