Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; a desire to vex or injure; petty malice; grudge; rancor. (obsolete) Vexation; chagrin; mortification.

Is spitefulness a word?

1. A desire to harm others or to see others suffer: despitefulness, ill will, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, malignancy, malignity, meanness, nastiness, poisonousness, spite, venomousness, viciousness.

Is spiteful a adjective?

adjective. full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.