spiteful
spahyt fuhl
- s showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite
a despiteful fiend
a truly spiteful child
- As a vehicle choice, the H2 was a spiteful reactionary riposte to notions that, you know, maybe we all shouldn't be driving tanks that get 10 miles per gallon.
- Senior officials renowned for optimism on the bleakest of days are spiteful in private and pessimistic in public.
- IT is a low-key intuition, not spiteful or malicious, but pervasive: in the minds of most Americans the incoming Nixon Administration seems to represent the comeback of the Wasp .