behaving in an unkind way in order to hurt or upset someone synonym malicious a spiteful child He made some very spiteful remarks to me.
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NAmE//ˈspaɪtfəli//
adverb “I don't need you,” she said spitefully. noun [uncountable]See spiteful in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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