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Unfriendly vs Spiteful - What's the difference?

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Unfriendly is a related term of spiteful.


As adjectives the difference between unfriendly and spiteful

is that unfriendly is not friendly; hostile; mean while spiteful is filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to vex, annoy, or injure; malignant; malicious.

As a noun unfriendly

is an enemy.

unfriendly

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • not friendly; hostile; mean
  • unfavourable

    • Antonyms

    * friendly

    Derived terms

    * user-unfriendly

    Noun

    (unfriendlies)
  • An enemy.
  • * 2005 , Ted Dekker, Thunder of Heaven (page 217)
    • Sweep the valley compound and eliminate any unfriendlies you encounter.
  • * 2008 , Dennis Wengert, A Very Healthy Insanity (page 44)
    • You see, the mission of almost every teenage girl on the loose is to first identify the targets, just like a war. These include the primary objective (the boy), the enemy (other girls), the friendlies (sympathetic girl friends and the boy's family), and unfriendlies (other boys).

    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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