It's more like "in spite of".
I was not afraid to walk with my afro out, my fist up and with a fearless spirit because in spite of the hate that enveloped my coworker and I that day..
Instead, treat them nicely and perform random acts of kindness in spite of them hating you.
And in spite of an uptick in hate crimes, the new government abolished a government agency charged with fighting racism in May.
Still, and in spite of the fact that hate crimes against Muslims are on the rise, most of the anti-M-103 protesters didn't see right-wing extremism as a threat in Canada.
I'm writing to both of you, in spite of the fact that I hate giving advice.
Parson James (Secretary of the Interior James Watt) was put in charge of parks and wilderness preserves, in spite of the fact that he hated the outdoors.
It is also true that some percentage of the people who voted for him did so not because he championed racism and hate, but in spite of that.
In a long-running, committed relationship, we love our partners because they love us in spite of the fact that they may hate something about us (often the very same things that bother us about ourselves).
She stood by the riding ring for countless horse shows in the worst weather, cheering for both my sister and me as we jumped over fences big enough to scare even the most intrepid mother and in spite of the fact that she both hated and feared the beasts that towered over her.
As Baron Ochs, the Marschallin's impossibly misogynistic and crude cousin, Günther Groissböck was as lovably ridiculous and off-putting as he needed to be — you can never quite hate Baron Ochs in spite of yourself, not least because he gets to sing the infectious "Rosenkavalier" waltz — though there was a certain amount of gravel in his low notes.
