despiteful

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"Heard you ever, my lords, a more despiteful and treasonable letter?"

From John Knox by Taylor, William M. (William Mackergo)

For slight is of three kinds, as stated in Rhet. ii, 2, viz. "contempt," "despiteful treatment," i.e. hindering one from doing one's will, and "insolence": and all motives of anger are reduced to these three.

From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Driven by despiteful wrong she takes her seat, In lowly grief, at Jove's eternal feet.

From Mosaics of Grecian History by Willson, Marcius

Were His enemies never so many, and never so despiteful against Him, yet He sall rule in the midst of them.

From The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation by Kerr, James

It is rather that under modern civilised conditions, and among a people governed by sentiments of humanity and equity, the stranger within our gates suffers no obloquy and no despiteful usage for being a stranger.

From An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation by Veblen, Thorstein