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# spiteful

«spiteful» in Mova's school dictionary: **wanting to hurt or annoy someone, and being unkind on…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (more spiteful, most spiteful)

### meaning for a pupil

Spiteful means wanting to hurt or annoy someone, and being unkind on purpose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spiteful/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in the tales, a cruel or nasty character, such as a jealous queen or a bad-tempered creature

### examples

- The spiteful creature lifted its crest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spiteful/#x1)
- The spiteful queen said, «There's an end of all thy beauty.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spiteful/#x2)
- He had a bad and spiteful nature. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spiteful/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «spiteful» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spiteful/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.