| Spiteful (a.) Filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to vex, annoy, or injure; malignant; malicious; as, a spiteful person or act. Thesaurus Entries acrid, acrimonious, antagonistic, antipathetic, bearish, belligerent, bitchy, bitter, cankered, cantankerous, cattish, catty, caustic, churlish, clashing, colliding, conflicting, crabbed, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crusty, cussed, despiteful, disagreeable, evil, excitable, feisty, fractious, full of hate, hateful, hostile, huffish, huffy, invidious, irascible, irritable, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, ornery, perverse, punitive, quarrelsome, rancorous, repugnant, retaliative, retaliatory, retributive, retributory, revengeful, set against, snappish, sore, spleeny, splenetic, testy, ugly, unforgiving, unfriendly, vengeful, venomous, vicious, vindictive, virulent, vitriolic, waspish, wicked |