despiteful

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

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

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

The servant, despiteful most like for that he had never availed to drink of the wine, took a great flagon, which when Cisti saw, 'My son,' said he, 'Messer Geri sent thee not to me.'

From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Payne, John

But then brust forth the venome which before lurked; then might they not conteine their despiteful voices, but with open mouthes did crie: we will not haue suche a one to reigne ouer vs.

From The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women by Arber, Edward

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