Usually means: Holding malice or spite; vindictive.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word despiteful:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. despiteful: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. despiteful: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. despiteful: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. despiteful: Collins English Dictionary
  5. despiteful: Vocabulary.com
  6. despiteful: Wordnik
  7. despiteful: Wiktionary
  8. despiteful: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. despiteful: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Despiteful, despiteful: Dictionary.com
  11. Despiteful: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. despiteful: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. despiteful: Rhymezone
  14. Despiteful: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. despiteful: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. despiteful: Free Dictionary
  17. despiteful: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. despiteful: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. despiteful: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. despiteful: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (despiteful)

adjective:  (archaic) Full of despite; expressing malice or contemptuous hate.

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