spites
- present tense form of spite (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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“In this small, final, seemingly quiet but ultimately volcanic book of stories, Trevor denies and defies — maybe spites — the promise of decline,” Cynthia Ozick wrote here.
From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2020
These days, archbishops tend to have more Christian charity, while the petty spites and preposterous self-importance of their 1936 counterparts have been transferred to breakfast television presenters and so on.
From The Guardian • Jan. 9, 2020
There are "get-out-of-my-sight" scenes that have not been witnessed since Bette Davis hung up her spites.
From Time Magazine Archive
Suppressed desires, hidden hates, secret spites, conjugal conspiracies�all may be and have been expressed in a man's final accounting: his will.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her time with Tariq’s family always felt natural to Laila, effortless, uncomplicated by differences in tribe or language, or by the personal spites and grudges that infected the air at her own home.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
