Meaning of despiteful | Babel Free

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; […]”

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