Spite

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  • noun. Malicious ill will prompting an urge to hurt or humiliate another person.
  • transitive verb. To treat with spite; show spite toward.
  • idiom. (in spite of) Not stopped by; regardless of.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Injury; mischief; shame; disgrace; dishonor.
  • noun. A disposition to thwart and disappoint the wishes of another; ill-will; malevolence; malice; grudge; rancor.
  • noun. Chagrin; vexation; ill luck; trouble.
  • noun. Synonyms Animosity, Ill-will, Enmity, etc. (see animosity), pique, spleen, defiance. In spite of, Despite, etc. See not-withstanding.
  • To dislike; regard with ill-will.
  • To thwart; cross; mortify; treat maliciously: as, to cut off one's nose to spite one's face.
  • To fill with vexation; offend.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To be angry at; to hate.
  • transitive verb. To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.
  • transitive verb. To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.
  • noun. Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite.
  • noun. Vexation; chargrin; mortification.
  • noun. in opposition to all efforts of; in defiance or contempt of; notwithstanding.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. to entertain a mean hatred for him.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • preposition. Notwithstanding; despite.
  • noun. Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; a desire to vex or injure; petty malice; grudge; rancor.
  • noun. Vexation; chagrin; mortification.
  • verb. To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.
  • verb. To be angry at; to hate.
  • verb. To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. hurt the feelings of
  • noun. malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty
  • noun. feeling a need to see others suffer
  • Word Usage
    "And yet, in spite of that -- in _spite_ of that, I say -- we have thus far held the enemy at a standstill."
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