spitefully
adverb disapproving uk/ˈspaɪt.fəl.i/ us/ˈspaɪt.fəl.i/
恶意地;怀恨在心地
in a way that shows you want to annoy, upset, or hurt another person, because you feel angry towards them
She spitefully removed his name from the invitation list. 她恶意地把他的名字从邀请名单上删掉了。
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- "Still alive anyway," Stephen said spitefully as his mother went downstairs out of earshot.
- She spitefully destroyed another child's sandcastle.
- I got the dish-cloth and rather spitefully scrubbed Edgar's nose and mouth, affirming it served him right for meddling.
- Spitefully, they sat in the front row, glaring at the extraordinary man in front of them and hoping to put him off his stride.
- People used to say, spitefully and untruly, that he would have let Dorothy preach his sermons for him if it had been possible.