I am a sick man… I am a spiteful man. I am an unpleasant man. I think my liver is diseased.
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Spiteful
//ˈspaɪtfʊl//
Synonyms for "spiteful" (88 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (18)
Strong matches (26)
Related words (44)
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Translations
52 translations across 23 languages.
Azerbaijani
1 entries- kinli adj (filled with spite)
Belarusian
2 entries- зласлі́вы adj (filled with spite)
- зло́сны adj (filled with spite)
Bulgarian
2 entries- зло́бен adj (filled with spite)
- злостен adj (filled with spite)
Catalan
2 entries- maliciós adj (filled with spite)
- rancuniós adj (filled with spite)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 刻毒 adj (filled with spite)
Czech
4 entries- nenávistný adj (filled with spite)
- zlomyslný adj (filled with spite)
- záštiplný adj (filled with spite)
- škodolibý adj (filled with spite)
Danish
2 entries- ondsindet adj (filled with spite)
- ondskabsfuld adj (filled with spite)
Dutch
3 entries- hatelijk adj (filled with spite)
- onheus adj (filled with spite)
- rancuneus adj (filled with spite)
Eastern Mari
1 entries- аяр adj (filled with spite)
French
1 entries- rancunier adj (filled with spite)
Galician
1 entries- malicioso adj (filled with spite)
German
2 entries- boshaft adj (filled with spite)
- gehässig adj (filled with spite)
Irish
2 entries- aiciseach adj (filled with spite)
- dúchroíoch adj (filled with spite)
Italian
2 entries- dispettoso adj (filled with spite)
- vendicativo adj (filled with spite)
Japanese
4 entries- 悪意のある adj (filled with spite)
- 意地の悪い adj (filled with spite)
- 意地悪い adj (filled with spite)
- 意地悪な adj (filled with spite)
Māori
3 entries- kaikino adj (filled with spite)
- turatura adj (filled with spite)
- waniwani adj (filled with spite)
Polish
3 entries- robiący na złość adj (filled with spite)
- wredny adj (filled with spite)
- złośliwy adj (filled with spite)
Portuguese
3 entries- danoso adj (filled with spite)
- malévolo adj (filled with spite)
- rancoroso adj (filled with spite)
Romanian
3 entries- malițios adj (filled with spite)
- ranchiunos adj (filled with spite)
- răutăcios adj (filled with spite)
Russian
4 entries- зло́бный adj (filled with spite)
- зло́стный adj (filled with spite)
- злой adj (filled with spite)
- недоброжела́тельный adj (filled with spite)
Spanish
3 entries- malévolo adj (filled with spite)
- rencoroso adj (filled with spite)
- venenoso adj (filled with spite)
Swedish
2 entries- illvillig adj (filled with spite)
- ondskefull adj (filled with spite)
Ukrainian
1 entries- зло́бний adj (filled with spite)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
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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