Spiteful vs Oppositional - What's the difference?
spiteful | oppositional |
Filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to vex, annoy, or injure; malignant; malicious
Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting opposition
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=March 10, author=Steven Lee Myers, title=Kasparov, Building Opposition to Putin, work=New York Times
, passage=And he has brought to oppositional politics the same energy and aggression that characterized his chess, attacking Mr. Putin and the Kremlin — or the regime, as he repeatedly calls it — with language rarely spoken so bluntly in Russia. }}
As adjectives the difference between spiteful and oppositional
is that spiteful is filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to vex, annoy, or injure; malignant; malicious while oppositional is of, pertaining to, or exhibiting opposition.spiteful
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(Webster 1913)Alternative forms
* spightful (obsolete) * spightfull (obsolete) * spitefull (archaic)Adjective
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* *oppositional
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