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
"I guess Lizzie's spited that Teacher's stoppin' at our place," giggled Rebecca, her pretty face rosy with pleasurable excitement in the turn affairs had taken.
From Tillie, a Mennonite Maid; a Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch by Helen Reimensnyder Martin
I wisht I could make the neighbors all see the jestice in his taking over the land and not feel so spited at him.
From Rose of Old Harpeth by Maria Thompson Daviess
"Wouldn't it have spited us if Master Joe had been spoiled with a broken arm, and all the fun we've been planning gone for nothing?"
From Harper's Young People, October 5, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
