When your sister told you that you looked terrible in your new tube top, she may have been saying it out of spite, or in a deliberately mean or offensive way.
Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite.
Noun
malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty
Noun
feeling a need to see others suffer
Verb
hurt the feelings of; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised me ego"
n.
Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the
disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge;
rancor; despite.
n.
Vexation; chargrin; mortification.
v. t.
To be angry at; to hate.
v. t.
To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.
v. t.
To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.
Spite
This is the deadly spite that angers.2.
Spite
The Danes, then . . . pagans, spited places of religion.2.
Darius, spited at the Magi, endeavored to abolish not only their learning, but their language.
Spiteful
Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite.
To be angry at; to hate.
Usage Examples
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of the many changes that have taken place in the world of fashion and in its business.
Courage is not the absence of despair it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Bringing an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians may help the young Arab generation to realise their aspirations. Israel is more than willing to offer our experience in building a modern economy in spite of limited resources to the whole region.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever known, but in spite of that fame, he was such a nice and friendly guy.
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Other Usage ExamplesI love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.
Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
I support allowing gay couples to marry because of - not in spite of - my values. And many of those values are the same ones deeply held by those who do not believe in gay marriage.
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that.
I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.
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