spite
(noun, verb, preposition)
noun
1. feeling a need to see others suffer
Similar word(s): malice, maliciousness, spitefulness, venom
Definition categories: feeling, malevolence, malignity
2. malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty
Similar word(s): cattiness, nastiness, spitefulness
Definition categories: attribute, malevolence, malice
Sentences with spite as a noun:
- He was so filled with spite for his ex-wife, he could not hold down a job.
- They did it just for spite.
- "The time is out of joint: O cursed spite." Shakespeare, Hamlet
preposition
1. Notwithstanding; despite.
verb
1. hurt the feelings of
Similar word(s): bruise, hurt, injure, offend, wound
Definition categories: emotion, arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise
Sentences with spite as a verb:
- She soon married again, to spite her ex-husband.
- The Danes, then […] pagans, spited places of religion. — Fuller.
- Darius, spited at the Magi, endeavoured to abolish not only their learning, but their language. — Sir. W. Temple.