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Spite   /spaɪt/   Listen
Spite

noun
1.
Feeling a need to see others suffer.  Synonyms: malice, maliciousness, spitefulness, venom.
2.
Malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty.  Synonyms: bitchiness, cattiness, nastiness, spitefulness.
verb
(past & past part. spited; pres. part. spiting)
1.
Hurt the feelings of.  Synonyms: bruise, hurt, injure, offend, wound.  "This remark really bruised my ego"



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"Spite" Quotes from Famous Books



... said she; "you know the strange empire you have obtained over me, and, certainly, in spite of all that has passed (and Caroline turned pale) I could bear anything rather than that you should hereafter reproach me for selfish disregard of ...
— Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... drawing himself up with a look of defiance and a laugh of contempt, that caused the two men to shrink back in spite of themselves. ...
— The Lighthouse • Robert Ballantyne

... wee, oh! love is slee, and winna be said nay, It breaks a' chains, except its ain, but it will ha'e its way; In spite o' fate we took the gate, now happy as can be; O poverty! O poverty! we're wed in spite ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various

... country than any we saw in Gallipoli, in spite of its waterlogged ditches and the rain which had fallen miserably almost every day since we arrived. There is green grass up to within a few yards of the filthy mud of the front trenches; and not a hinterland of ...
— Letters from France • C. E. W. Bean

... back to us," smiled Prescott. "But we're not going to lose to-day's game, Mr. Morton, nor any other day's. Drayne's treachery has just about crazed the other fellows with anger. They'll win everything ahead of 'em, now, just for spite and disgust, ...
— The High School Captain of the Team - Dick & Co. Leading the Athletic Vanguard • H. Irving Hancock


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