Ill-disposed vs Spiteful - What's the difference?
ill-disposed | spiteful | Related terms |
Not much disposed towards somebody or something; unsympathetic.
* 2009 , Patrick Malcolmson & Richard Myers, The Canadian Regime: An Introduction to Parliamentary Government in Canada , University of Toronto Press (2009), ISBN 9781442600478,
* 2011 , Garrett G. Fagan, The Lure of the Arena: Social Psychology and the Crowd at the Roman Games , Cambridge University Press (2011), ISBN 9780521196161,
* 2011 , Tony MacLachlan, We Spared Not the Capital of America: War Between Britain and the United States 1812-15 , AuthorHouse (2011), ISBN 9781456781859,
Filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to vex, annoy, or injure; malignant; malicious
Ill-disposed is a related term of spiteful.
As adjectives the difference between ill-disposed and spiteful
is that ill-disposed is not much disposed towards somebody or something; unsympathetic while spiteful is filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to vex, annoy, or injure; malignant; malicious.ill-disposed
English
Adjective
(en adjective)page 61:
- And the Maritime colonies were similarly ill-disposed toward a legislative union.
page 252:
- The crowd may generally have been ill-disposed toward arena performers, but that could change depending on what was going on at any given time.
page 241:
- As a man of Eastern Tennessee, he also felt ill-disposed to co-operate with the men from the west.
