Definitions for spiteful

spiteful spite·ful

Spelling: [spahyt-fuh l]
IPA: /ˈspaɪt fəl/

Spiteful is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 322 anagrams from letters in spiteful (efilpstu).

Definitions for spiteful

adjective

  1. full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous:

Origin of spiteful

late Middle English word dating back to 1400-50; See origin at spite, -ful

Examples for spiteful

Her fingers were spiteful as they clicked the key in answer.

Sometimes I could have pitied her, she was so greedy, so spiteful, so friendless.

And that spiteful Bobcat, that took advantage of him; and the man that had tried to kill him.

"He didn't have to be so everlastin' mean and spiteful about it, anyhow," she declared.

She hesitated, and then fired a parting shot which certainly was spiteful in the extreme.

She was a Socitaire of the Comdie, old, spiteful, and surly.

"Only to see what spiteful creatures you women are," he continued, smiling.

He describes himself on a train platform in Hanover, spiteful and sexually frustrated, throwing coins on the floor.

But this spiteful idea could not be sustained in face of the aspect she had now assumed.

What remains is just bigotry, and probably a spiteful resistance to being seen as caving in to the relativists.

Word Value for spiteful
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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