behaving in an unkind way in order to hurt or upset sb
SYNMALICIOUS:
a spiteful child * He made some very spiteful remarks to me.
spitefully adverb:
'I don't need you,' she said spitefully.
spitefulness noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for spiteful is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is spiteful a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, spiteful is tagged as adjective.
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