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Coldhearted vs Spiteful - What's the difference?

coldhearted | spiteful |

As adjectives the difference between coldhearted and spiteful

is that coldhearted is while spiteful is filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to vex, annoy, or injure; malignant; malicious.

coldhearted

English

Adjective

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    • , passage=Since she sprang from the imagination of the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen in 1890, this coldhearted antiheroine has maintained a tight grip on the attention of audiences across the globe, outstripping all the many other complicated women in Ibsen’s oeuvre, even the door-slamming Nora of “A Doll’s House. }}

    spiteful

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Alternative forms

    * spightful (obsolete) * spightfull (obsolete) * spitefull (archaic)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to vex, annoy, or injure; malignant; malicious

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