Usually means: Cruel, spiteful, showing malicious intent.
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  1. despiteous: Merriam-Webster
  2. despiteous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. despiteous: Collins English Dictionary
  4. despiteous: Wordnik
  5. despiteous: Wiktionary
  6. despiteous: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Despiteous, despiteous: Dictionary.com
  8. Despiteous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. despiteous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Despiteous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. despiteous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. despiteous: FreeDictionary.org
  13. despiteous: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (despiteous)

▸ adjective:  Full of contempt or ill will; opprobrious; insulting.
▸ adjective:  Dispiteous.

Similar:
contemptful, obloquious, obnoxious, loathful, vituperous, rancorous, hateful, grudgeful, orgulous, odious, more...

Opposite:
admiring, respectful, appreciative

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Similar:
contemptful, obloquious, obnoxious, loathful, vituperous, rancorous, hateful, grudgeful, orgulous, odious, more...

Opposite:
admiring, respectful, appreciative



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