spite

/spait/
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spite

A child hides a friend's toy out of spite.

Definition

  1. Noun:

    • A desire to hurt, annoy, or offend someone: A feeling of ill will or malice that motivates a person to cause harm or distress to another.
    • A grudge or malicious feeling: A specific instance of such a feeling, often persistent.

  2. Verb:

    • To deliberately hurt, annoy, or offend (someone): To treat someone with malice or to act in a way intended to cause them displeasure or injury.
Usage
  • Noun: Used to describe a malicious feeling or motivation. Often appears in the phrase "out of spite" or "in spite of."
  • Verb: Used to describe the action of intentionally causing someone else distress or harm.
Examples

  • Noun:

    • He refused the offer out of pure spite. (His refusal was motivated only by a desire to be hurtful.)
    • She felt a pang of spite when she saw her rival succeed. (She had a malicious feeling upon seeing her rival's success.)
    • In spite of the rain, we went for a walk. (This phrase means "despite" or "notwithstanding" the rain. It is a fixed idiom.)

  • Verb:

    • He only said that to spite me. (His words were intended solely to hurt my feelings.)
    • She spited her neighbors by playing loud music late at night. (She annoyed her neighbors deliberately.)
Advanced Usage
  • "In spite of": A prepositional phrase meaning "without being affected or prevented by; despite." It is a very common idiom.
    • In spite of his injury, he finished the race.
  • "Out of spite" / "From spite" / "In spite": Adverbial phrases indicating that an action is motivated by malice.
    • She canceled the meeting out of spite.
Variants and Related Words
  • Spiteful (adj.): Having or showing a desire to harm, anger, or defeat someone.
    • He made a spiteful remark about her work.
  • Spitefully (adv.): In a spiteful manner.
    • She spitefully revealed his secret.
Synonyms
  • Noun: Malice, ill will, rancor, venom, grudge, malevolence.
  • Verb: Annoy, hurt, offend, vex, injure.
Related Idioms
  • "To cut off one's nose to spite one's face": To harm oneself in the process of trying to harm another; to act out of pique in a way that damages oneself more than the target of one's anger.
    • Quitting his job just to annoy his boss was like cutting off his nose to spite his face.
spite

A child hides a friend's toy out of spite.

Noun
  1. malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty
  2. feeling a need to see others suffer
Verb
  1. hurt the feelings of
    • She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests
    • This remark really bruised my ego

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