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spitefully

/spahyt-fuhl/US // ˈspaɪt fəl //UK // (ˈspaɪtfʊl) //

唾弃地,唾弃,唾手可得,唾骂

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.

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Examples

  • I’ve endured spiteful comments, like the ones I read at Outside that day, throughout my entire life, from being bullied in school to being spit on and harassed in the streets by random strangers.

  • With pop-punk intensity, she sing-talks her way through a song that’s unapologetically bitter and spiteful, with a guitar-driven chorus that just asks for a cathartic singalong.

  • For example, at ages 8 and 9, children made spiteful choices 41 percent of the time with in-group members and 44 percent of the time with out-group members, as compared with 17 versus 33 percent for 12- and 13-year-olds.

  • What remains is just bigotry, and probably a spiteful resistance to being seen as caving in to the relativists.

  • He describes himself on a train platform in Hanover, spiteful and sexually frustrated, throwing coins on the floor.

  • Subordinated as it is here rewritten, it does not half express the spiteful independence she assumed to teach Coppy a lesson.

  • This was the first time he had smarted in his penetrable part—the skin—and it made him very spiteful.

  • This sentence evidently cannot mean that a father may refuse food to his son if the latter is spiteful.

  • He was not only terrified but angered, and whirling about, he brought down his gun with spiteful violence on the writhing body.

  • No one has yet enjoyed any spiteful fun at Mrs. Depew's expense though many were on the qui vive for entertainment.