what does spiteful mean dictionary
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vindictive spiteful - showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite; a despiteful fiend; a truly spiteful child; a vindictive man will look for occasions for resentment. despiteful, vindictive.
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Meaning of 'indolence' Indolence [ n. - Freedom from that which pains, or harasses, as toil, care, grief, etc. - The quality or condition of being indolent; inaction, or want of exertion of body or mind, proceeding from love of ease or aversion to toil; habitual idleness; indisposition to labor; laziness; sloth; inactivity.
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What does reproachful mean? Reproachful is an adjective in the English language. It is defined as expressing disapproval or disappointment. Synonyms for reproachful include critical and disparaging.
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willful deliberate, voluntary, or intentional: The coroner ruled the death willful murder. 2. unreasonably stubborn or headstrong; self-willed. Origin of willful.
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vengeful Definition of vengeful for English Language Learners. : feeling or showing a desire to harm someone who has harmed you : feeling or showing a desire for vengeance.
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- (comparative more baneful, superlative most baneful) 1  Exceedingly harmful; causing harm, death, ruin. 2  Deadly or sinister. 3  Portending disaster. ( 4 archaic) Poisonous.
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Did Billy The Kid Die in 1881 or 1950? Another Folklore Mystery! Pat Garrett became sheriff of Lincoln County and at one time was friends with Billy the Kid. It is known “the kid” was shot in the dark on this date in 1881 by Pat Garrett. But, it is said he was shot in the back by Garrett, whom by then I suppose was a former friend.
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- spite′ful•ness, n. vengeful, mean, cruel, rancorous. Spiteful, revengeful, vindictive refer to a desire to inflict a wrong or injury on someone, usually in return for one received.
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- from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 1  adj. Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful. 2  adj. Characterized by great atrocity; heinous; aggravated; flagitious. 3  adj. Full of, or expressing, grief; showing great sorrow or affliction.
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- malice, malevolence, ill will, spite, malignity, spleen, grudge mean the desire to see another experience pain, injury, or distress. malice implies a deep-seated often unexplainable desire to see another suffer.
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cruel Cruel definition, willfully or knowingly causing pain or distress to others. See more.
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rueful Define rueful. rueful synonyms, rueful pronunciation, rueful translation, English dictionary definition of rueful. adj. Causing, feeling, or expressing sorrow or regret: He gave the young officer the rueful look of a father exasperated with his misbehaving son ....
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- Top Definition. Detrimental. Detrimental is an adjective that means harmful or tending to cause harm. It can also be used to mean prejudicial, disadvantageous or counterproductive. Most people realise that smoking is detrimental to your health. #disadvantageous #dangerous #counterproductive #ruinous #prejudicial. by AKACroatalin August 01, 2015.
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needful needful. 1  necessary or required: needful supplies. 2  needy. 3  the needful, Slang. money, especially immediately available cash: They haven't the needful for a car right now.
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willful adjective. The definition of willful is someone or something that does what they want, or something done on purpose. 1  An example of someone willful is a child that refuses to eat at a meal. 2  An example of something willful is the action of a puppy that is determined to eat all of the shoes it can find.
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ominous ominous, portentous, fateful mean having a menacing or threatening aspect. ominous implies having a menacing, alarming character foreshadowing evil or disaster. ⟨ominous rumblings from the volcano⟩ portentous suggests being frighteningly big or impressive but now seldom definitely connotes forewarning of calamity.
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- Define baneful: productive of destruction or woe : seriously harmful; poisonous — baneful in a sentence productive of destruction or woe : seriously harmful; poisonous… See the full definition
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malice desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another, either because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness: the malice and spite of a lifelong enemy. 2. Law. evil intent on the part of a person who commits a wrongful act injurious to others. Origin of malice.
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- malignity. MALIG'NITY, n. L. malignitas. Extreme enmity, or evil dispositions of heart towards another; malice without provocation, or malevolence with baseness of heart; deep rooted spite. 1. Virulence; destructive tendency; as the malignity of an ulcer or disease. 2. Extreme evilness of nature; as the malignity of fraud. 3. Extreme sinfulness; enormity or heinousness; as the malignity of sin. Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828. Previous word: malicious.
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CRUEL Meaning: (of weapons or instruments) causing suffering and pain. Synonyms: brutal; cruel. Context examples: brutal instruments of torture / cruel weapons of war. Similar: inhumane (lacking and reflecting lack of pity or compassion)
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HARMFUL Meaning: Causing or capable of causing harm. Context examples: too much sun is harmful to the skin / harmful effects of smoking. Similar: counterproductive (tending to hinder the achievement of a goal) damaging; detrimental; prejudicial; prejudicious ((sometimes followed by 'to') causing harm or injury) ill (resulting in suffering or adversity)
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What does deceitful mean? Function: adjective : having a tendency or disposition to deceive : a : not honest <a deceitful child> b : DECEPTIVE, MISLEADING <deceitful advertising> synonym see DISHONEST - de·ceit·ful·ly /-f&-lE/ adverb - de·ceit·ful·ness noun.
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- Despicable trickery at elections; under-handed tamperings with public officers; cowardly attacks upon opponents, with scurrilous newspapers for shields, and hired pens for daggers; shameful trucklings to mercenary knaves, whose claim to be considered, is, that every day and week they sow new crops of ruin with their venal types, which are the dragon's teeth of yore, in everything but sharpness; aidings and abettings of every bad inclination in the popular mind, and artful suppressions of all ...
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cruel Cruel, pitiless, ruthless, brutal, savage imply readiness to cause pain to others. Cruel implies willingness to cause pain, and indifference to suffering: a cruel stepfather. Pitiless adds the idea of refusal to show compassion: pitiless to captives. Ruthless implies cruelty and unscrupulousness, letting nothing stand in one's way: ruthless greed.
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ungrateful 2. ungrateful-disagreeable; I will not perform the ungrateful task of comparing cases of failure- Abraham Lincoln. unpleasant-disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings; an unpleasant personality; unpleasant repercussions; unpleasant odors.
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- The worst kind of person. You cannot fully construct a meaning that fully encompasses what this vicious insult means. If you're an asshole, you are disgusting, loathesome, vile, distasteful, wrathful, belligerent, agoraphobic, and more. Assholes are human fecal matter. They are the lowest of the low.