gehässig — meaning in English
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English meaning
- catty adj Deliberately spiteful or snide in a subtle, needling way.
- hateful adj Full of hatred, or causing others to feel hatred.
- nasty adj Unpleasant, unkind, or spiteful, especially in how someone treats others.
- spiteful adjective Full of spite; deliberately unkind or vindictive.
- toxic adjective Poisonous; capable of causing illness or death if it enters the body.
- viperish adj Behaving like a viper, a poisonous snake.
Senses
gehässig is used for these senses in English:
- begrudging grudgeful, envious
- cattish sly and spiteful; marked by malice
- hateful Evoking a feeling of hatred.
- nasty Contemptible, unpleasant (of a person). [from 15th c.]
- spiteful Filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to annoy or harm.
- toxic (figurative, of a person) Hateful or strongly antipathetic.
- viperish spiteful; treacherous
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