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Meaning of despiteful | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

Full of despite; expressing malice or contemptuous hate.

archaic

Examples

“The Londoners seeing that they could get no vantage against the duke, who was without their reach, to bewreak their anger they took his arms, which in most despiteful wise they hanged up in the open places of the city in sign of reproach, as for a traitor; […]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

despiteous despo despoilable despondent desponding despotic

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