despiteful
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He then set up his counter-challenge, and in one hour afterwards Johnson arrogantly accepted it, “in a most despiteful and disgraceful manner.”
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli
As goddesses your swelling wrath on men, Nor make the friendly earth despiteful to them.
From The House of Atreus by E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson) Morshead
Thus far I had choked down my swelling rage at her faithlessness, her vanity, her despiteful entreatment of my master's plight.
From Helmet of Navarre by Bertha Runkle
But when Theseus heard the story, he straightened himself up, so that he seemed taller than ever before; and as for his face, it was indignant, despiteful, bold, tender, and compassionate, all in one look.
From A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales For girls and boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne
But when Theseus heard the story, he straightened himself up, so that he seemed taller than ever before; and as for his face it was indignant, despiteful, bold, tender, and compassionate, all in one look.
From Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
