spite

nounverbprepositioncommon in dialogue

//spaɪt//

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.

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.
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.
2
obsoleteVexation; chagrin; mortification.
"The time is out of joint: O cursed spite."

Etymology

From Middle English spit, a shortening of despit (whence despite), from Old French despit, from Latin dēspectum (“looking down on”), from Latin dēspiciō (“to look down, despise”). Compare also North Frisian spīt, spīd (“regret”), Saterland Frisian Spiet (“regret, remorse”), West Frisian spyt (“regret”), Dutch spijt (“regret, remorse”), German Low German Spiet (“anger, regret, remorse”), German Spiet (“annoyance, vexation”), Swedish spit (“insult, outrage, annoyance”), Norwegian spit (“insult, outrage, annoyance”).

verb

1
To treat maliciously; to try to hurt or thwart.
She soon married again, to spite her ex-husband.
2
obsoleteTo be angry at; to hate.
The Danes, then […] pagans, principally spited places of religion.
3
To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.

preposition

1
Notwithstanding; despite.

Forms

plural: spites
past tense: spited
past participle: spited
present participle: spiting
third person singular: spites

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