despiteful
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As goddesses your swelling wrath on men, Nor make the friendly earth despiteful to them.
From The House of Atreus by E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson) Morshead
He saw in her but the despiteful, revengeful handmaid; he forgot that she was an injured wife—a neglected mother.
From Notable Women of Olden Time by Anonymous
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 Saint Thomas Aquinas
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 Lewis Spence
But when Theseus heard the story, he straightened himself up, so that he seemed taller than ever before; and as for his face, it was indignant, despiteful, bold, tender, and compassionate, all in one look.
From A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales For girls and boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne
