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dispiteous
[ dis-pit-ee-uhs ]
adjective
- malicious; cruel; pitiless.
Other Words From
- dis·pite·ous·ly adverb
- dis·pite·ous·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Turning dispiteous torture out of door?
Be but as sweet as is the bitterest, The most dispiteous out of all the gods, I am well pleased.
This dispiteous and abominable tyrant prohibits the bodies of the warriors fallen in the celebrated siege of that city from burial.
Aeneas was our king, foremost of men in righteousness, incomparable in goodness as in warlike arms; whom if fate still preserves, if he draws the breath of heaven and lies not yet low in dispiteous gloom, fear we have none; nor mayest thou repent of challenging the contest of service.
The second thought made plain the dispiteous hardness of it all, showing me how I had reasoned like a boy in planning for retrieval.
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