0 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.
"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.
