as in despitefully
in a mean or spiteful manner
many voters were turned off by the way the candidate hatefully dredged up his opponent's marital troubles
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Adverb
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In her lawsuit and over several days on the witness stand in Miami, Megan claimed Cooper and Lanez, whose legal name is Daystar Peterson, maliciously spread rumors about her as retribution for her testimony against Peterson.—
Nancy Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
1 Dec. 2025 -
In 2024, allegations emerged of footage from Amazon's Ring home-security cameras being used maliciously against neighbors in response to police requests.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
23 Nov. 2025
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That leaves the volatile Joanne feeling shut out and bitterly resentful.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
16 June 2026
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The German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, desperate to connect with the grandeur of antiquity and left bitterly disappointed by his visit to Rome, eventually arrived in this once-vibrant center of the extended Greek empire.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
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For much of the season, Carol has seen herself as stepping, reluctantly or just spitefully, into the position of a lone individual holding out against the hive.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
24 Dec. 2025
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And then Daniel Durtson viciously went off on Taylor in the BB bathroom.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
4 June 2026
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Young mother Rachel Nickell is brutally murdered in her own home, stabbed with scissors so viciously that a blade gets lodged in her skull.—
K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
29 May 2026
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We were warned by President and Supreme Allied Commander Dwight Eisenhower, along with United States Marine Major General Smedley Butler about the virulently toxic, corruptive and destabilizing influences exerted upon our government by the military industrial complex.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 May 2026
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Runway is going virulently viral for all the wrong reasons, and its editor, the legendary Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), is, for once, at a loss for a withering mot juste when her advertisers demand an explanation.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Hatefully.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hatefully. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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