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# spitefully

«spitefully» in Mova's school dictionary: **meant to hurt or annoy someone** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (no other forms)

### meaning for a pupil

Spitefully means in a way that is meant to hurt or annoy someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spitefully/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in the tales, a character speaks or acts in a nasty, unkind way on purpose

### examples

- He said spitefully, «I am not afraid of you.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spitefully/#x1)
- Big Toomai prodded the elephant spitefully, because he was angry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spitefully/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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