despiteful
/dih-spahyt-fuhl/US // dɪˈspaɪt fəl //UK // (dɪˈspaɪtfʊl) //
可鄙的,可鄙,卑鄙无耻,卑鄙的
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Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : malicious; spiteful.
- : Obsolete. contemptuous; insolent.
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Examples
Driven by despiteful wrong she takes her seat, In lowly grief, at Jove's eternal feet.
But, as I told him, his despiteful mood Is ornament well suits the breast that wears it.
He saw in her but the despiteful, revengeful handmaid; he forgot that she was an injured wife—a neglected mother.
It is true, the triumph of your evil star is exceedingly despiteful.
If Hor or Horus was the sun at his height, he too had suffered despiteful usage from his enemies.
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