despiteful
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It was a habit of mind—the only revenge that I could take upon despiteful Fate.
From The Inheritors by Joseph Conrad
But then brust forth the venome which before lurked; then might they not conteine their despiteful voices, but with open mouthes did crie: we will not haue suche a one to reigne ouer vs.
From The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous regiment of Women by Edward Arber
Driven by despiteful wrong she takes her seat, In lowly grief, at Jove's eternal feet.
From Mosaics of Grecian History by Marcius Willson
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
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
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