spite
noun
a malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; bitter ill will; malice.
spited
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past participleof spite.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof spite.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
spitenouna malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; bitter ill will; malice.
Example Sentences
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A sample: During the chorus, Swift proves once more that she’d make a fantastic BuzzFeed writer, telling us about yet another list she keeps of those who spited her.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2017
Last week Bush spited journalists who prematurely published the identity of his choice for Transportation Secretary by postponing the nomination of Chicago attorney Samuel Skinner.
From Time Magazine Archive
In actual life you are hot, tired, bored, headachy, "spited with fools," what not.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury
It seems that our hero, considering himself spited by a Latin-Grammar-Master, demanded the satisfaction due from one man of honour to another.
From Captain Boldheart & the Latin-Grammar Master A Holiday Romance from the Pen of Lieut-Col. Robin Redforth, aged 9 by S. Beatrice Pearse
Of course he spited the poor young chap, and how could the fact be denied when the poor ghost had come back to ask for his blood?
From A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago by Charlotte Mary Yonge
