Spiteful

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  spiteful
       adj : 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}, {vindictive}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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