Spite
[spaɪt]
Definition
(n.) Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite.
(n.) Vexation; chargrin; mortification.
(v. t.) To be angry at; to hate.
(v. t.) To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.
(v. t.) To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Malice, malevolence, rancor, venom, gall, malignity, maliciousness, hate, grudge, pique, ill-nature.[2]. Defiance, opposition, despite, contempt.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Malice, malevolence, grudge, pique, hatred, Ill-will, vindictiveness, rancor,spleen
ANT:good_will, benevolence, kindliness
Checker: Virgil
Definition
n. grudge: lasting ill-will: hatred.—v.t. to vex: to thwart: to hate.—adj. Spite′ful full of spite: desirous to vex or injure: malignant.—adv. Spite′fully.—n. Spite′fulness.—In spite of in opposition to all efforts of in defiance of in contempt of.
Checker: Lucy
Examples
- One sees very little about it in the newspapers and popular magazines, in spite of the fact that it is the keystone, so to speak, of the motion-picture industry. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But in spite of their efforts to be as cheery as larks, the flutelike voices did not seem to chord as well as usual, and all felt out of tune. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Yes, in spite of all her present anxieties, that was the look on her face. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- And all this your laws give him power to do, in spite of God or man. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He was determined to make a fortune out of cotton-spinning, and he did, in spite of the loss of his patents, and the rivals who were always pursuing him. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- In spite of such support, and its strong appeal to national vanity, British imperialism never saturated the mass of the British peoples. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Earl had procured a pair of horses somehow, in spite of Mrs. Crawley, and was rolling on the road to Ghent. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Spites, affronts, offences giv' and took, deadly aggrawations, such like,' answered Riderhood. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The world of Islam was rent in twain by the spites, greeds, and partisan silliness of a handful of men and women in Medina. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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