despiteful

Example Sentences

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He saw in her but the despiteful, revengeful handmaid; he forgot that she was an injured wife—a neglected mother.

From Notable Women of Olden Time by Anonymous

Further, as a Castilian gentleman, do you agree with the author’s most despiteful entreatment of that sweet sex for whose sake all romances were written?

From Legends & Romances of Spain by Spence, Lewis

It is rather that under modern civilised conditions, and among a people governed by sentiments of humanity and equity, the stranger within our gates suffers no obloquy and no despiteful usage for being a stranger.

From An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation by Veblen, Thorstein

Were His enemies never so many, and never so despiteful against Him, yet He sall rule in the midst of them.

From The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation by Kerr, James

As goddesses your swelling wrath on men, Nor make the friendly earth despiteful to them.

From The House of Atreus by Morshead, E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson)