despiteful

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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

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 Disraeli, Isaac

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 Morris, Charles

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

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 Thomas, Aquinas, Saint