despiteful old use , also: despiteous

It is my study To seem despiteful and ungentle to you.

Despiteful and terrible were the blows they gave and took by the moonlight.

Others in this very land were enduring despiteful slavery, trembling before the moods of their masters, and I set them free.

And, like the droll despiteful elves They are, they yet outwit your plan.

But, as I told him, his despiteful mood Is ornament well suits the breast that wears it.

O despiteful love!

Despiteful tidings!

Despiteful and intolerable wrongs!

Canst thou forget to take revenge of those wild people who have defaced my monument in a despiteful manner, disdaining our antiquities and honorable customs?

PARIS This is the most despiteful gentle greeting, The noblest hateful love, that e'er I heard of.

So still repeating their despiteful song, They to the opposite point on either hand Travers'd the horrid circle: then arriv'd, Both turn'd them round, and through the middle space Conflicting met again.

His taken labours bid him me forgive; I, his despiteful Juno, sent him forth From courtly friends, with camping foes to live, Where death and danger dogs the heels of worth.

Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted Eve, Her husband she, to taste the fatal fruit, Was known in Heaven; for what can 'scape the eye Of God all-seeing, or deceive his heart Omniscient?