Usually means: Holding malice despite better options.
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  1. despitefulness: Merriam-Webster
  2. despitefulness: Collins English Dictionary
  3. despitefulness: Wordnik
  4. despitefulness: Wiktionary
  5. despitefulness: Dictionary.com
  6. despitefulness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  7. despitefulness: FreeDictionary.org
  8. despitefulness: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. despitefulness: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  The state or quality of being despiteful.

Similar:
dispiteousness, spitefulness, withstandingness, defiantness, unyieldingness, witfulness, begrudgingness, disdainfulness, undauntedness, endfulness, more...

Opposite:
kindness, benevolence, goodwill, generosity

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Similar:
dispiteousness, spitefulness, withstandingness, defiantness, unyieldingness, witfulness, begrudgingness, disdainfulness, undauntedness, endfulness, more...

Opposite:
kindness, benevolence, goodwill, generosity



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