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    Spitefully is the adverb of spiteful: it describes doing something in a deliberately nasty way, meaning to hurt or upset someone. Because it is an adverb, it attaches to the action rather than the person — 'he spitefully deleted her files', 'she laughed spitefully'. The judgement is the same as in spiteful: the hurting was intended, it is usually petty rather than grand, and the speaker clearly . It is a slightly literary word; in ordinary spoken English people are more likely to say 'out of spite' — 'he did it out of spite' sounds more natural in conversation than 'he did it spitefully'. You will meet spitefully most in novels and reported writing, often attached to a verb of speaking or a small cruel act. Watch the position: like most manner it can go before the verb, after the verb, or after the object, and all three are fine.

    惡意地、故意刁難地、記恨地。口語裡台灣學生更常會用得上的說法是 out of spite(出於報復、故意的)。

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組成spiteful(惡意的)+ -ly(副詞尾:以……的方式)。再往下拆是 spite + -ful + -ly,三層疊上去。

同家族的字

  • spitefulthe adjective this adverb is made from
  • spitethe root noun — the feeling
  • despitespite is a shortened form of despite; both from Old French despit, 'contempt'

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

spitefullyadv

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    In a spiteful manner.

    • Tuc[ca]. […] Can thy Author doe it impudently enough? / Hiſt[rio]. O, I warrant you, Captaine: and ſpitefully inough too; he ha's one of the moſt ouerflowing villanous wits, in Rome. He will ſlander any man that breathes; If he diſguſt him. / Tucca. I'le know the poor, egregious, nitty Raſcall; and he haue ſuch commendable Qualities, I'le cheriſh him: […]

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