Sentence examples for spite are from inspiring English sources

She is devoted to her sister, Rose Fiona Glascottt), and her mother, Mary Jane Brennann), but has developed very low self-esteem on account of having to work in a local shop for the cantankerous, ill-natured Miss Kelly (Brid Brennan), whose malice and spite are to play a decisive role.

This minor unpretentious affair, with six boys and a girl, makes no resort to cheap bawdy, mentions the dreary Affair not once, and indeed seems to share my view that the recriminations of politicians and the world of party political spite are no subject for humour of any kind, even the most "undergraduate".

As I have gotten older, I have realized how important the issues of hatred and spite are to being a sports fan.

Charity was good, but spite was not.

He thinks that spite is wit.

Spite is this woman's amphetamine.

The stage-managed spite was tiresome and ultimately counterproductive.

Spite is not Manning's style, Glazer said.

These heckling strophes drip with spite, but spite is often the vehicle of premonitory truth.

But I know my spite is not constructive: this celebration is at best premature and at worst short-sighted.

"In Spite" is not for those who do not care to see raw material left deliberately raw by a highly controlling director and choreographer.