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I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it.
Andrew Eldritch

Meaning of "spiteful" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SPITEFUL

spiteful  [ˈspaɪtfʊl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SPITEFUL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Spiteful is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SPITEFUL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Spiteful

Spiteful may refer to: ▪ HMS Spiteful, various Royal Navy ships ▪ Spiteful-class destroyer, a Royal Navy class of two destroyers built in 1898 and 1899 ▪ USS Thistle , a Union Army American Civil War steamer originally the Army tug Spiteful ▪ Supermarine Spiteful, a fighter intended to replace the Spitfire, but made obsolete by jet aircraft...

Definition of spiteful in the English dictionary

The definition of spiteful in the dictionary is full of or motivated by spite; vindictive.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SPITEFUL


affrightful
əˈfraɪtfʊl
basketful
ˈbɑːskɪtfʊl
delightful
dɪˈlaɪtfʊl
despiteful
dɪˈspaɪtfʊl
fateful
ˈfeɪtfʊl
foresightful
ˈfɔːˌsaɪtfʊl
frightful
ˈfraɪtfʊl
grateful
ˈɡreɪtfʊl
hateful
ˈheɪtfʊl
insightful
ˈɪnsaɪtfʊl
lightful
ˈlaɪtfʊl
plateful
ˈpleɪtfʊl
plightful
ˈplaɪtfʊl
requiteful
rɪˈkwaɪtfʊl
rightful
ˈraɪtfʊl
sprightful
ˈspraɪtfʊl
spriteful
ˈspraɪtfʊl
undelightful
ˌʌndɪˈlaɪtfʊl
ungrateful
ʌnˈɡreɪtfʊl
unrightful
ʌnˈraɪtfʊl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SPITEFUL

spit curl
spit it out!
spit-and-sawdust
spit-roast
spit-roasted
spital
spitball
spitchcock
spitcher
spite
spitefully
spitefulness
spitfire
Spithead
Spitsbergen
spitsticker
spitted
spitter
spitting
spitting distance

WORDS THAT END LIKE SPITEFUL

careful
crateful
debateful
disgraceful
distasteful
forceful
graceful
hasteful
hopeful
ingrateful
peaceful
purposeful
resourceful
shameful
suspenseful
tasteful
untasteful
useful
vengeful
wasteful

Synonyms and antonyms of spiteful in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SPITEFUL»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «spiteful» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of spiteful

Translation of «spiteful» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SPITEFUL

Find out the translation of spiteful to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of spiteful from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «spiteful» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

怀恨的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

rencoroso
570 millions of speakers

English

spiteful
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

द्वेषी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حَقُود
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

злобный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

maldoso
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হিংসক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

rancunier
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bersungut-sungut
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

boshaft
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

意地の悪い
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

악의적인
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nyengsemaken
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hằn học
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

எதிராளிகளாலும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

खुनशी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kindar
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

maligno
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

złośliwy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

зловтішний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

jignitor
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κακεντρεχής
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

moedswillig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

retsam
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ondskapsfull
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of spiteful

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SPITEFUL»

The term «spiteful» is quite widely used and occupies the 54.572 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SPITEFUL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about spiteful

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7 QUOTES WITH «SPITEFUL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word spiteful.
1
Heather Brooke
The way the Establishment deals with people like me is to ignore them. When you become unignorable, they will try to smear you, and that's what I feared for a long time. Now I have somehow vaulted into this space where it's difficult for someone to smear me because it would look as though they were being vindictive and spiteful.
2
Melanie Chisholm
The British press have written some nasty and spiteful things about the way I look which used to affect me quite badly when it was new to me but luckily, I've learned to ignore the comments. why do they even care about how I look?
3
Andrew Eldritch
I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it.
4
Heinrich Himmler
I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere.
5
Hulk Hogan
It's tough because a lot of my friends in normal life, a lot of my friends in the entertainment business, and a lot of my friends in the wrestling business are gay. Just to say something spiteful and hurtful, I don't get it... if it was true and I was gay, I'd embrace it, and I'd tell you guys about it and I'd celebrate it.
6
David Lehman
Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.
7
Jill Scott
People is, I think, it's their nature - some people's nature, in a way, to be angry or jealous or just spiteful about somebody else's blessings.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPITEFUL»

Discover the use of spiteful in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to spiteful and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Spiteful Jack
Sycanthus, AKA Spiteful Jack, uses the vilest men in history to achieve this terrible goal, possessing the bodies of Vlad the Impaler, Jack the Ripper and John Wayne Gacy among many, many others. And today his quest is almost complete.
Michael Foxx, 2012
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The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters
The Mystery series follows the adventures of ‘The Five Find Outers’ - Pip, Bets, Larry, Daisy and Fatty, as they solve the most unusual crime cases with the help of their dog Buster.
Enid Blyton, 2013
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The tale of the spiteful spirits: a Kampuchean folk tale
Because a young man will not pass on the stories he is told by an old servant, the spirits of the stories, having nowhere to go, live in a cramped leather bag, where they plan a spiteful revenge for the young man on his wedding day.
Carole Tate, 1991
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The Problem of the Spiteful Spiritualist
Dr. Doyle, along with his visiting friend Reverend Dodgson, attend a seance where the spirit of a sea captain is supposed to reveal the location of a stolen treasure, but things get out of hand when the medium dies with the word murder on ...
Roberta Rogow, 1999
5
Introducing Performative Pragmatics
I was a spiteful official. I was rude and took pleasure in being so. I did not take bribes, you see, so I was bound to find a recompense in that, at least. (A poor jest, but I will not scratch it out. I wrote it thinking it would sound very witty; but now that  ...
Douglas Robinson, 2013
6
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis
Selfishness: the selfish individual reduces his brother's fitness but enlarges his own to an extent that more than compensates. Spite: the spiteful individual lowers the fitness of an unrelated competitor (the unshaded figure) while reducing that ...
Edward O. Wilson, 2000
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Pocket Oxford American Dictionary and Thesaurus
2 acrimonious, hostile, angry, rancorous, spiteful, vicious, vitriolic, savage, ferocious, nasty. 3 resentful, embittered, aggrieved, spiteful, jaundiced, sullen, sour. 4 freezing, icy, arctic, biting, piercing, cocktails. SYNONYMS > adj. 1 sharp, acid ...
Oxford University Press, 2010
8
Internationalizing Internet Studies: Beyond Anglophone Paradigms
as complex Chinese.28 However, perhaps because members of Spiteful Tots would still like to maintain an atmosphere of democracy (considering that all the other boards have been created according to the majority opinion and are based on ...
Gerard Goggin, Mark McLelland, 2010
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Hms Spiteful
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Spiteful was a B-class torpedo boat destroyer privately built by Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company Limited, Jarrow, for the Royal Navy in 1899.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
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Spite and Development
finding is consistent with the view that free riders who punish want to increase the payoff difference between themselves and the cooperators. Social psychologists also have found evidence for spiteful preferences (Paul A. M. van Lange 1999).
Ernst Fehr, Karla Hoff, Mayuresh Kshetramade, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPITEFUL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term spiteful is used in the context of the following news items.
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Somaliland: Failed and Spiteful Politicians
Somalilandsun - Failed, spiteful and hatemonger politicians are everywhere!! They can be found in all colours and in all corners of the world. But still they have a ... «Somaliland Sun, Jul 15»
2
Andy Burnham: I knew 'spiteful' mansion tax was toxic when mum …
Andy Burnham, the frontrunner for the Labour leadership, has described Ed Miliband's flagship mansion tax policy as “spiteful” and disclosed that his mother ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
3
This spiteful ex-boyfriend takes literal meaning to giving his ex half …
This spiteful ex-boyfriend takes literal meaning to giving his ex half of everything. 2585 Views 0 Comments. A German man has taken a bitter breakup to the next ... «The Vine, Jun 15»
4
Asking Alexandria's Ben Bruce Says He Wrote Spiteful Lyrics …
And I was angry — I was really angry — and I was upset, so a lot of the lyrics were written towards Danny and a lot of them were quite spiteful and lot of them ... «Loudwire, Jun 15»
5
Spiteful vandal covers pensioners car in gold - even using an …
The spiteful attacker even went to the trouble of covering the 68-year-old's Audi TT in primer before spraying it - making sure the damage was almost impossible ... «Mirror.co.uk, May 15»
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'Spiteful' mother jailed for lying over son's cremation to keep dad away
... place with no-one present. Jailing Hackney for four months, Judge David Fletcher said: "You were vindictive. You were spiteful. Your behaviour was wicked." ... «Stoke Sentinel, May 15»
7
Birmingham office cleaner sprays colleague's sandwich with …
A "spiteful" cleaner secretly sprayed a colleague's sandwiches with chemicals after taking offence to him walking in to the room, a court heard. Sharon Edwards ... «BBC News, May 15»
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Feeling spiteful? Blame your genes: Desire to hurt others evolved to …
A team of psychologists, biologists and mathematicians has discovered that the more similar a person is within a group, the more spiteful they are to outsiders. «Daily Mail, May 15»
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Government 'spiteful' over Lusitania dive rules
The owner of the Lusitania has accused the Government of abandoning the wreck to pirates and treasure hunters after stringent rules on diving affected his ... «RTE.ie, Apr 15»
10
David Cameron being spiteful about French economy, says Ségolène
It seems a little spiteful and inappropriate.” European countries “should all stand together when any country is in difficulty”, she urged. “When a country like the ... «Evening Standard, Mar 15»

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