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# spite

«spite» in Mova's school dictionary: **a wish to hurt, annoy or upset someone on purpose: he…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (spite; uncountable); verb (spite, spites, spited, spiting); preposition phrase (in spite of)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Spite is a wish to hurt, annoy or upset someone on purpose: he broke it out of spite. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spite/#m1)

2) To spite someone is to do something just to annoy or upset them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spite/#m2)

3) In spite of means «even though» or «without being stopped by»: we played in spite of the rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spite/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Stories and feelings: a character who acts «out of spite» is being mean on purpose; it shows a nasty side. Everyday life: «cut off your nose to spite your face» means hurting yourself while trying to hurt someone else. Grammar: «in spite of» and «despite» join two ideas that seem opposite.

### examples

- She hid my pencil case out of spite. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spite/#x1)
- In spite of the rain, we went to the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spite/#x2)
- He refused to help just to spite his brother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spite/#x3)
- Don't let spite ruin your friendship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spite/#x4)
- We won in spite of having only ten players. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spite/#x5)
- Don't cut off your nose to spite your face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spite/#x6)
- The witch laughed with spite. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spite/#x7)
- Our Mayblossom will be happy in spite of her predictions.’ [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spite/#x8)

### note

Uncountable noun. «In spite of» is three words; «despite» is one word and has no «of» (despite the rain, not despite of). Adjective: spiteful (mean on purpose).

### In the corpora

- [Aristotle said courage is doing the right thing in spite of fear.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/91-owning-up-when-it-is-hard/16/)
- [And if in spite of these things ye will not be corrected unto Me, but will walk contrary unto Me;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.811/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «spite» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spite/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.