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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



... spite of himself. His nostrils alone would give him away," she told herself, smiling. "He is cross, the other inscrutable; Ruth is frightened, and I am amused. We look like four school-children seated in a row, with Uncle Bernard as the teacher... When ...
— The Fortunes of the Farrells • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... forty-five cents would more than suffice to take her there. She would see the casting director. She would get a job. With food to eat and a place to sleep as a starting point she would find her own way to wickedness, releasing the prince in spite of all the mishaps which kept her ...
— The Dust Flower • Basil King

... exclaimed the holy Bishop. "Here is a brave soldier and a great statesman, fretted by the merest trifles, and unhappy because he cannot die in exactly the circumstances which he would have chosen for himself." I am glad to be able to add that in spite of all this the poor man made a ...
— The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales • Jean Pierre Camus

... end of the Broadstairs holiday, the house in Devonshire Terrace was vacant, and the family returned to it in October. All this year Charles Dickens had been at work upon the monthly numbers of "Dombey and Son," in spite of these many interruptions. He began at Broadstairs a Christmas book. But he found that the engrossing interest of his novel approaching completion made it impossible for him to finish the other work in time. So he decided ...
— The Letters of Charles Dickens - Vol. 1 (of 3), 1833-1856 • Charles Dickens

... companion, but only about twice as heavy! Here is a very great contrast; and this point will appear even more forcible if we contrast the companion of Sirius with our sun. The companion is slightly heavier than our sun; but in spite of its slightly inferior bulk, our sun is much more powerful as a light-giver. One hundred of the companions of Sirius would not give as much light as our sun! This is a result of very considerable significance. ...
— The Story of the Heavens • Robert Stawell Ball


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