spiteful
Appearance
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- spightful, spightfull, spitefull (all obsolete)
Etymology
[edit]From Middle English spytefulle. By surface analysis, spite + -ful.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]spiteful (comparative more spiteful or (rare) spitefuller, superlative most spiteful or (rare) spitefullest)
- Filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to annoy or harm.
- 2000, “Judith”, performed by A Perfect Circle:
- It's not like you killed someone
It's not like you drove a spiteful spear into his side
Talk to Jesus Christ as if he knows the reasons why
He did it all for you
Translations
[edit]filled with spite
Further reading
[edit]- “spiteful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “spiteful”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.