Sentence examples for is spite from inspiring English sources
noun
Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; a desire to vex or injure; petty malice; grudge; rancor.
- He was so filled with spite for his ex-wife, he could not hold down a job.
The popular game this summer is Spite and Malice.
What I hate in any confessional writing is spite and cruelty.
His voice is high-pitched, and in it there is spite, self-pity, self-parody, seduction, false innocence, anxiety.
But more important, the episode illustrated an essential truth about the state of American politics: at this point, the guiding principle of one of our nation's two great political parties is spite pure and simple.
As we all know from 9 seasons of Seinfeld and 8 seasons of Curb, if there is one thing Larry David is motivated by it is spite.
Does the president have to come on our show to avoid charges that he is spiting all progressives?
A famous rivalry shrivelled until all that remained was spite.
"First it was spite against Hitler, now, it was spite" for various insults, real or imagined, she said.
Of course, it hasn't all been spite and bile in our house.
