spite
IPA: spˈaɪt
noun
- Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the desire to unjustifiably irritate, annoy, or thwart; a want to disturb or put out another; mild malice
- (obsolete) Vexation; chagrin; mortification.
verb
- (transitive) To treat maliciously; to try to hurt or thwart.
- (transitive, obsolete) To be angry at; to hate.
- (transitive) To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.
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Examples of "spite" in Sentences
- He has no spite against you.
- He acts with spite and anger.
- He knows how to deal with spite.
- When is the moment you had spite
- Willy is willing to stop his spite.
- He is cutting off the nose with spite.
- In spite of the flour bombing, the game was continued.
- In spite of this tragedy, the Fultz family persevered.
- In spite of this the omens looked good for the alliance.
- Your spite is a cancer that affects you and those around you.
- In spite of the meanness of the village, the event was successful.
- People have died for that vote you are going to make, and to use it in spite is shamefull.
- And yet, in spite of that -- in _spite_ of that, I say -- we have thus far held the enemy at a standstill.
- Hmmm … I love the idea of a whole host of characters who make us love them in spite of how messed up their thinking is!
- Nearly 20 years later, there is plenty of research and scientific consensus on the health effects ofincineration, in spite of what SEPA officials may claim.
- If memory serves, you're description of Smith was in spite of him not really filling the role of leader of the party until the previous Budget (November '93), where he really tore Clarke to shread's.
- I made the mistake of not reading The Hours first and the movie was so atrocious that I have not been able to bring myself to read the book in spite of knowing Cunningham did a good job and is a passsionate Woolf and Mrs. Dalloway fan.
- And yet in the very face of these plain, incontrovertible, all-visible facts, we go on from year to year with the base system of Academy teaching, in spite of which every one of these men has risen: I say _in spite_ of the entire method and aim of our art-teaching.
- "Now I arise," any extraordinary accession to the business, as it is technically called, of the scene: for I do not think that his resuming his magical robe was in any way necessary to account for the slumber which overcomes Miranda, "in spite of her interest in her father's story," and which Mr. Collier says the commentators have endeavored to account for in various ways; but putting "_because_ of her interest in her father's story," instead of "_in spite_ of," I feel none of the difficulty which beset the commentators, and which Mr. Collier conjures by the stage-direction which makes Prospero resume his magic robe at
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