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spitefulness

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

怀恨在心,怨恨,怨气,刻薄寡恩

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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 gather, from your report of it, it's a regular old-fashioned hair-pulling sort of feminine spitefulness.

  • There was no longer the same zest in the little scandals and petty spitefulness of a private school.

  • It is the essence of spitefulness to say that nothing can be a benefit which does not cause some inconvenience to the giver.

  • "Chick-a-rer chick" is its usual call-note, jerked out with great spitefulness.

  • Neither his mother nor the baron noticed his attitude of spitefulness.