despiteful
Example Sentences
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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
As goddesses your swelling wrath on men, Nor make the friendly earth despiteful to them.
From The House of Atreus by Morshead, E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson)
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
O false death, how injurious and despiteful hast thou been to me!
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
It was a habit of mind—the only revenge that I could take upon despiteful Fate.
From The Inheritors by Conrad, Joseph
