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[syn: despiteful, spiteful, vindictive]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Spiteful \Spite"ful\, a.
Filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to vex,
annoy, or injure; malignant; malicious; as, a spiteful person
or act. --Shak. -- Spite"ful*ly, adv. Spite"ful*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
spiteful
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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
70 Moby Thesaurus words for "spiteful":
acrid, acrimonious, antagonistic, antipathetic, bearish,
belligerent, bitchy, bitter, cankered, cantankerous, cattish,
catty, caustic, churlish, clashing, colliding, conflicting,
crabbed, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crusty, cussed, despiteful,
disagreeable, evil, excitable, feisty, fractious, full of hate,
hateful, hostile, huffish, huffy, invidious, irascible, irritable,
malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, ornery, perverse,
punitive, quarrelsome, rancorous, repugnant, retaliative,
retaliatory, retributive, retributory, revengeful, set against,
snappish, sore, spleeny, splenetic, testy, ugly, unforgiving,
unfriendly, vengeful, venomous, vicious, vindictive, virulent,
vitriolic, waspish, wicked