Sentence examples for spite as from inspiring English sources

And because of the recent developments in the industry, many say they do it out of spite as much as habit.

Digby "made himself a part of the village," Hélène tells the author, who adds, "and as such he was now exposed to its spite as well as its generosity".

Spite as entertainment.

But no movie has inspired such a venomous, sustained campaign of spite as the Ghostbusters remake.

That said, the former senator's last few weeks of campaigning were propelled as much out of spite as spirituality – perhaps even more of the former than the latter.

This would protect against cases where the fee objection was driven by strategic considerations, or simple spite, as it might have been in the Asarco case.

scoring on a base hit from Bruce just to spite you as well... October 9, 2012 With how poorly the Giants have been hitting so far this series, we might already be halfway there with them down one after one.

The course has proved extremely popular in spite of, as Martin puts it, "a workload that could feel like slavery".

They could say, in spite, or as a matter of fact, or silently in their head, that I was gay.

Or perhaps the measures will be seen for what they are: calculated, unproductive spite masquerading as justice.

It is capable of spite: just as the Tories dismantled the GLC, its predecessor had to go in 1964 because it was a Labour power base.