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    [Noun]  | "spite" | \ ˈspīt \


    1: petty ill will or hatred with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart

    2: an instance of spite

    Origin: 14th century ;

     Middle English, short for despite;

    [Verb]  | "spite" 


    1: annoy, offend

    2: to fill with spite

    3: to treat maliciously (as by shaming or thwarting)

    Origin: circa 1555 ;

    [Idiom]  | "cut off one's nose to spite one's face" 


    1: to do something that is meant to harm someone else but that also harms the person who does it

    [Idiom]  | "in spite of oneself" 


    1: even though one does not want to or expect to

    [Noun]  | "spite" 


    1: the desire to cause pain for the satisfaction of doing harm;


      * e.g., " ... spread cruel lies out of pure spite "



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    [Verb]  | "spite" 


    1: to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts;


      * e.g., " ... sometimes, I swear, she keeps doing that just to spite me "



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    [Phrase]  | "in spite of" 


    1: without being prevented by;


      * e.g., " ... In spite of what we believed, no one had actually been in the house for weeks. "



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