Sentence examples for spite if from inspiring English sources

It would be a piece of monumental spite if the enemies and rivals of the corporation succeeded in killing or hobbling the BBC website.

And Twitter is arguably popular on a bigger scale than almost any popular service that eventually withered in spite if itself.

Many good people I know loathe and hate Thatcher as if she was personally responsible for the decay of British industry, as if  the unions were innocent victims of her casual spite, as if council house sales were imposed on an unwilling public, as if Thatcher set back women's rights a generation.

People voting for these parties, he said, would in many cases "do it out of spite even if it is no good for themselves".

Some will purposefully not follow safety guidelines to spite you, if you were mean to them.

But there is a thin line between spontaneous comic genius and shambolic and disconnected spite and, even if I were one of those who would like nothing more than to sink a pint with the Big Yin, Connolly would not be seen dead drinking with me.

Taylor says Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland would be "cutting off their nose to spite their face" if they prevented their players from playing at the Olympics.

Experts say that concern is unlikely to derail the deal as Google would effectively be "cutting off its nose to spite its face" if it annoyed other Android partners who could switch to rival system software.

The libertarian influence here may be mild at best, but it's very possible that Paul loyalists will decide to back McConnell's opponent for no other reason than to spite Benton, even if that just means a few hundred dollars with menacing smirks to match.

But Plato is angry at Socrates and, out of perverse spite, wants to eat if and only if Socrates does not want to eat.

So I must ask – in spite of my age – if I wouldn't be a better, more successful writer if I was more willing to fail.