spite

• I forgive yer spite, an' hope Lord woan' bring it back to ye ever. —  Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
• In spite, then, of the success of the readings, his faithful friends like Forster would gladly have seen him abandon a practice which could add little to his future fame, while it threatened to shorten his life. —  Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies
• In spite, therefore, of the indignation of his wife--and her endeavours to repress his agitation throughout the scene--he starts up, and proclaims himself the father of Raymond: who, he declares aloud, is his long-lost son,--stolen from him by routiers_--whose loss had cost him the life of a beloved wife, whom he deplored The result is, however, far different to his expectations, or that of all present. —  Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre
• The Germans blew up the citadel out of sheer spite, as the vast pink pile long ago ceased to be of military value. —  Everyman's Land
• Wycherley's joke, replies a critic, is contemptible; and yet one feels that the death scene, with this strange mixture of cynicism, spite, and superstition, half redeemed by imperturbable good temper, would not be unworthy of a place in Wycherley's own school of comedy. —  Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series

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