spiteful

SPITE-fuladj

Meaning mean on purpose, out of petty ill will

Memory hook a cat FULL of SPITE. Dinner was late, so Mittens looks Felix in the eye and slowly pushes his cup off the table: a spiteful cat.

The spiteful cat stared right at me and pushed my cup off the table.

In context Jealous that her brother got the bigger room, she did something spiteful: she hid his favorite cap where he would not find it for weeks.

Similar mean, malicious, nasty, petty

Opposite kind, generous, charitable

From spite, a shortening of despite, which once meant scorn.

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