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English
Etymology
From despite + -ful.
Adjective
despiteful (comparative more despiteful, superlative most despiteful)
- (archaic) Full of despite; expressing malice or contemptuous hate.
1841, John Foxe, The History of John Wickliffe, page 21:The Londoners seeing that they could get no vantage against the duke, who was without their reach, to bewreak their anger they took his arms, which in most despiteful wise they hanged up in the open places of the city in sign of reproach, as for a traitor;
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