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spite

/spaɪt/

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What does spite mean?

noun

  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.

verb

  1. To treat maliciously; to try to hurt or thwart.
  2. To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.
More meanings (3)

preposition

  1. Notwithstanding; despite.

noun

  1. (obsolete) Vexation; chagrin; mortification.

verb

  1. (obsolete) To be angry at; to hate.

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IPA pronunciation

/spaɪt/

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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O wealth and empiry and skill by skill Outwitted in the battlefield of life, What spite and envy follow in your train!
SophoclesPlays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; AntigoneTranslated by Francis StorrProject Gutenberg ebook #31
Her grace was only an uneasy wriggle, her audacity was the result of insolence and envy, and her wit was restless spite.
Willa CatherThe Song of the LarkProject Gutenberg ebook #44
More book examples (3)
For several days he wandered aimlessly, nursing his spite and looking for some weak thing on which to vent his pent anger.
Edgar Rice BurroughsTarzan of the ApesProject Gutenberg ebook #78
In spite of my depression, I was almost amused at the coolness and delicate hauteur with which my sweet lover received me.
Anthony HopeThe prisoner of ZendaProject Gutenberg ebook #95
O, ’tis the spite of hell, the fiend’s arch-mock, To lip a wanton in a secure couch, And to suppose her chaste!
William ShakespeareThe Complete Works of William ShakespeareProject Gutenberg ebook #100