dispiteous
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Is dispiteous a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (archaic, literary) Not showing mercy or pity.Examples: "[…] 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 […]"; "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."; "O England! when the Wallace Wight was led, A fettered wonder, to thy capital, How cruel, how dispiteous was his fall!"Synonyms: cruel, impiteous, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, unpityingarchaicliterary
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