spiteful

• spightful, spightfull, spitefull (all obsolete)

From Middle English spytefulle. By surface analysis, spite +‎ -ful.

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spiteful (comparative more spiteful or (rare) spitefuller, superlative most spiteful or (rare) spitefullest)

1. Filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to annoy or harm.

   Synonyms: malignant, malicious

   • 2000, “Judith”, performed by A Perfect Circle:

     It's not like you killed someone
     It's not like you drove a spiteful spear into his side
     Talk to Jesus Christ as if he knows the reasons why
     He did it all for you

• “spiteful”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “spiteful”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.