Spite

/spaɪt/ · noun

Meaning

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..

Definitions by Sense

1. 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.
2. (obsolete) Vexation; chagrin; mortification.
3. (transitive) To treat maliciously; to try to hurt or thwart.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To be angry at; to hate.
5. (transitive) To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.
6. Notwithstanding; despite.

Example Sentences

He was so filled with spite for his ex-wife, his brother was afraid of what he might do.

They did it just for spite.

This is the deadly spite that angers.

Out of spite, the human beings pretended not to believe that it was Snowball who had destroyed the windmill: they said that it had fallen down because the walls were too thin.

sex with older men was a way to both internalize my spite towards my mother and to find security in a father figure I lacked with my own father.

"The time is out of joint: O cursed spite."

She soon married again, to spite her ex-husband.

The Danes, then […] pagans, principally spited places of religion.

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• spites
• spight
• spiting
• spited

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