despiteful

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He then set up his counter-challenge, and in one hour afterwards Johnson arrogantly accepted it, “in a most despiteful and disgraceful manner.”

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac

It is in the very nature of poetical justice that it satisfies the emotions, and I was not displeased to see affairs take this sudden turn, to view the hard and despiteful heart thus humbled.

From Schwartz: A History From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray by Murray, David Christie

O false death, how injurious and despiteful hast thou been to me!

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

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

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

Further, as a Castilian gentleman, do you agree with the author’s most despiteful entreatment of that sweet sex for whose sake all romances were written?

From Legends & Romances of Spain by Spence, Lewis