What Is Spiteful Behaviour?

spiteful Add to list Share. When you're spiteful, you act in a mean way, with a desire to hurt someone. ... If you act or speak with the desire to hurt, bother, or infuriate someone, you are being spiteful.

What does it mean when someone is spiteful?

English Language Learners Definition of spiteful

: having or showing a desire to harm, anger, or defeat someone : having or showing spite. See the full definition for spiteful in the English Language Learners Dictionary. spiteful. adjective. spite·​ful | \ ˈspīt-fəl \

What is a spiteful personality?

Acting in a spiteful manner—deliberately trying to hurt someone, even when there's nothing to gain and even when those actions might cause you to suffer as well—is something everyone engages in at one point or another.