The phrase "a spite" is not commonly used in written English and may not be correct in most contexts.
It can be used when referring to a specific instance of spiteful behavior or feeling, but it is more common to use "spite" without the article.
Example: "He did it out of a spite that I couldn't understand."
Alternatives: "a grudge" or "a resentment."
The gesture has the feeling of a spite marriage.
After a spite check with 34... Bf2 and 35 Kh1, Shabalov gave up.
In the first pages of "The Illumination," Kevin Brockmeier's elegantly written new novel, a lonely character named Carol Ann Page receives a spite package from her ex-husband.
The report also said Mary's death was a "spite killing" that "was calculated to deprive the mother of her child while at the same time leaving her with a permanent memory of her death".
To gain privacy from the street, he put up a nine-foot wall, which one of his neighbors, interpreting it as a spite fence, sued unsuccessfully to have removed.
Two breakaway members of the Free Church and sometime farmers, Edwin Conway Broun and William Rawlings, had seen a neighbor build what was termed a "spite fence," as farms were then usually not fenced.
Lest you think there is actual altruism behind this move, rest assured that Trump has specifically positioned the event as a spite-driven harrumph intended to hurt Fox News' ratings, with military veterans serving as props.
Interestingly, there is a similar movement of chain A in spite of there being no propanol solvate in this region.
Matthews wears his hardheartedness proudly like a badge: "Spite had taught him detachment.
A lot of service organizations just want to provide services and see themselves caught in a political spite fight".
Investigators ruled out terrorism as a cause, in spite of a bomb threat against another railroad line this week.
