Spiteful

/ˈspaɪtfʊl/

Synonyms for "spiteful" (102 found)

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Closest matches (21)

Adjective(7 words)

vindictivebad intentionbitchier bitchiest cankerous cattier cattiest

acrid acrimonious antagonistic antipathetic bearish belligerent bitchy bitter cankered cantankerous cattish catty caustic churlish

Strong matches (30)

clashing colliding conflicting crabbed cranky crosscross grainedcross-grained crusty cussed derogatory despiteful disagreeable evil evil-minded excitable feisty fractiousfull of hatehate

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hateful hostile huffish huffy hurtful invidious

Adjective(2 words)

cruel despiteful

Noun(2 words)

determine the meanhating

Related words (51)

irascible irritable jaundiced malevolent malicious malign malignant mean mischievous nasty ornery perverse punitive quarrelsome rancorous repugnant resentful retaliative retaliatory retributive

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retributory revengeful sarcasticset againstsharp snappish sore spleeny splenetic testy ugly unforgiving unfriendly vengeful venomous vicious vindicate vindictive virulent vitriolic wanton waspish wicked

Adjective(7 words)

malevolent malicious meanmean-spirited contestpetty spitefuller vengeful

Noun(1 words)

meany

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

5 entries

negative behaviornegative traitpersonality traitsocially inappropriate conductsocially unacceptable conduct

More specific

6 entries

humiliation malice maliciousness pettiness spitefulness vindictiveness

Collocations

5 entries

spiteful attitudespiteful behaviorspiteful commentspiteful gesturespiteful remark

Inflections

2 entries

more spitefulmost spiteful

Derivations

2 entries

spitefully spitefulness

similar

1 entries

malicious

Sample sentences

11 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I am a sick man… I am a spiteful man. I am an unpleasant man. I think my liver is diseased.

Source: tatoeba (918757)

Mary is very spiteful and gives Tom the cold shoulder for days after the slightest disagreement between them.

Source: tatoeba (3649774)

There, my little doll, take it. Eat a little, drink a little, and listen to my grief. I live in my father's house, but my spiteful stepmother wishes to drive me out of the white world. Tell me! How shall I act, and what shall I do?

Source: tatoeba (3757243)

"Then he, at length his show of fear laid by, / 'Great King, all truly will I own, whate'er / the issue, nor my Argive race deny. / This first; if fortune, spiteful and unfair, / hath made poor Sinon wretched, fortune ne'er / shall make me false or faithless.'"

Source: tatoeba (6805202)

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