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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 In the manner of a viper.

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

Related German words