spiteful
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++spite·ful /ˈspaɪtfəl/ adjective CRUELdeliberately nasty to someone in order to hurt or upset them 有恶意的；恶毒的 SYN vicious She was spiteful and unkind, both to Isabel and to her son. 她又恶毒又刻薄，对伊莎贝尔这样，对她的儿子也这样。 a spiteful remark 刻薄话► see thesaurus at unkind —spitefully adverb
Examples from the Corpus
spiteful• Failure had made him bitter and spiteful.• He had entered the police station in a storm of self-righteous protest and had been by turn hectoring, belligerent and spiteful.• On the rare occasions when he was angry, Lowry could be spiteful and petty.• a spiteful liar• She had given him a spiteful look as she left, taking little catlike steps.• Loeb, the newspaper publisher, gained a national reputation as a spiteful manipulator of politics.• How could she tell him why Matilda had made such a spiteful remark?• I tried to like Julie but I couldn't forget how spiteful she'd been to me in the past.• That was a wicked and spiteful thing to do.• His white face was spiteful, threatening and suggestive.• You shouldn't be so spiteful to your sister.• His book challenged Galileo in the most spiteful way.spite·ful adjectiveChineseSyllable
nasty to order in deliberately hurt someone or to Corpus
spiteful
spite‧ful /ˈspaɪtfəl/
adjective
deliberately nasty to someone in order to hurt or upset them
SYN vicious:
She was spiteful and unkind, both to Isabel and to her son.
a spiteful remark
—spitefully adverb
▪ unkind treating people in a way that makes them unhappy or upset. Unkind sounds rather formal. In everyday English, people usually say mean or nasty: Children can be very unkind to each other. | a rather unkind remark
▪mean especially spoken unkind: Don’t be mean to your sister! | It was a mean thing to do.
▪nasty deliberately unkind, and seeming to enjoy making people unhappy: He said some really nasty things before he left. | a nasty man
▪hurtful unkind – used about remarks and actions: Joe couldn’t forget the hurtful things she had said. | Couples sometimes do hurtful things to each other.
▪spiteful deliberately unkind to someone because you are jealous of them or angry with them: The other women were spiteful to her, and gave her the hardest work to do. | She watched them with spiteful glee (=pleasure).
▪malicious deliberately behaving in a way that is likely to upset, hurt, or cause problems for someone: Someone had been spreading malicious rumours about him. | There was a malicious smile on her face. | an act of malicious vandalism | The accusations are malicious.
▪unsympathetic not seeming to care about someone’s problems, and not trying to help them or make them feel better: Her parents were very unsympathetic, and told her that she deserved to fail her exam. | an unsympathetic boss
▪hard-hearted very unsympathetic and not caring at all about other people’s feelings: Was he hard-hearted enough to leave his son in jail overnight? | a hard-hearted businessman
spite‧ful /ˈspaɪtfəl/
adjectivedeliberately nasty to someone in order to hurt or upset them
SYN vicious:
—spitefully adverb
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