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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
despiteful
    adj 1: showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt;
           motivated by spite; "a despiteful fiend"; "a truly
           spiteful child"; "a vindictive man will look for
           occasions for resentment" [syn: despiteful, spiteful,
           vindictive]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Despiteful \De*spite"ful\, a. [See Despite, and cf.
   Spiteful.]
   Full of despite; expressing malice or contemptuous hate;
   malicious. -- De*spite"ful*ly, adv. -- De*spite"ful*ness,
   n.
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         Haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters. --Rom. i.
                                                  30.
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         Pray for them which despitefully use you. --Matt. v.
                                                  44.
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         Let us examine him with despitefulness and fortune.
                                                  --Book of
                                                  Wisdom ii. 19.
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Thesaurus Results for despiteful:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
acrid, antagonistic, antipathetic, belligerent, bitchy, bitter, cattish, catty, caustic, clashing, colliding, conflicting, detestable, evil, full of hate, hateful, hostile, malevolent, malicious, malignant, quarrelsome, rancorous, repugnant, set against, sore, spiteful, unlikable, venomous, vicious, virulent, vitriolic, wicked
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