Dispiteous
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Dispiteous is an adjective meaning (archaic, literary) Not showing mercy or pity.
Meaning
(archaic, literary) Not showing mercy or pity.
Example Sentences
“The unerring owls have hooted. The dispiteous and humorous gods have spoken. […]”
O England! when the Wallace Wight was led, A fettered wonder, to thy capital, How cruel, how dispiteous was his fall!
How now, foolish rheum! Turning dispiteous torture out of door! I must be brief, lest resolution drop Out at mine eyes in tender womanish tears.
[…] these .ii. noble princes [wer] by treyterous tiranny taken & depriued of their estate, shortly shut vp in prison & priuely slain & murderd by yᵉ cruell ambicion of their vnnaturall vncle & dispiteous tourmentours […]
Synonyms for dispiteous
Depending on context, synonyms include cruel, impiteous, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, unpitying.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include torture, impiteous, despiteous, inclement, despiteful, piteous.
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