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- Dictionaryspiteful/ˈspʌɪtf(ʊ)l/
adjective
- 1. showing or caused by malice: "the teachers made spiteful little jokes about me"
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Spiteful means wanting to annoy, upset, or hurt another person, especially in a small way, because you feel angry towards them. Learn more about the word, its pronunciation, and translations in different languages.
- English (US)
SPITEFUL meaning: 1. wanting to annoy, upset, or hurt...
- Znaczenie Spiteful, Definicja W Cambridge English Dictionary
spiteful definicja: 1. wanting to annoy, upset, or hurt...
- Spiteful: Thai Translation
spiteful translate: ที่มีเจตนาร้าย. Learn more in the...
- Spiteful: Russian Translation
SPITEFUL translate: злобный . Learn more in the Cambridge...
- Spiteful: Catalan Translation
SPITEFUL translate: maliciós, rancuniós. Learn more in the...
- Spiteful: German Translation
spiteful translate: boshaft. Learn more in the Cambridge...
- English (US)
Spiteful means filled with or showing spite, which is a malicious or vicious attitude toward someone or something. Learn more about the word history, synonyms, examples, and usage of spiteful from Merriam-Webster dictionary.
Spiteful, revengeful, vindictive refer to a desire to inflict a wrong or injury on someone, usually in return for one received. Spiteful implies a mean or malicious desire for (often petty) revenge: a spiteful attitude toward a former friend.
If you act or speak with the desire to hurt, bother, or infuriate someone, you are being spiteful. You could deliberately hurt someone's feelings or embarrass them with your spiteful words, or you could watch a jealous child give her friend a spiteful shove.
Spiteful means filled with, prompted by, or showing spite; malicious. Find the meaning, synonyms, antonyms, and translations of spiteful in English and other languages.
Spiteful means full of or motivated by spite; vindictive. It implies a mean or malicious desire for (often petty) revenge. See pronunciation, collocations, sentences and word frequency of spiteful.
Spiteful means behaving in an unkind way in order to hurt or upset somebody. Learn how to use this adjective with pictures, pronunciation and usage notes from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.