despiteful
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O false death, how injurious and despiteful hast thou been to me!
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 by Peter Anthony Motteux
The servant, despiteful most like for that he had never availed to drink of the wine, took a great flagon, which when Cisti saw, 'My son,' said he, 'Messer Geri sent thee not to me.'
From The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by John Payne
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
Alas!" cried the king, "that you should ask me so despiteful a boon.
From Historic Tales, Vol. XIII (of 15), Part I The Romance of Reality. King Arthur by Charles Morris
For slight is of three kinds, as stated in Rhet. ii, 2, viz. "contempt," "despiteful treatment," i.e. hindering one from doing one's will, and "insolence": and all motives of anger are reduced to these three.
From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
