despiteful

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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 Runkle, Bertha

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)

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

Prime youth lasts not, age will follow And make white those tresses yellow; Wrinkled face, for looks delightful, Shall acquaint the dame despiteful.

From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

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