Spite in a sentence as a noun

Just understand this: culture thrives in spite of people like you, not because of them.

Are you trying to say that pg is friends with someone in spite of his supposed hateful nature?

Those guys are pretty uncommon, they're disliked even in spite of their P&L, and no one helps them when they get unlucky.

In spite of our understanding of chemistry, metallurgy still has quite a few mysteries in store for us. Some of them go back thousands of years.

It would have cost them nothing to comply with the ruling properly in the first place; they are now cutting their nose off to spite their face.

We sent this man to jail and changed our names to keep away from him, and Facebook, in spite of their "privacy" settings, let him get a glimpse back into our lives.

With ISOs, the value of the spread becomes subject to AMT and you can wind up paying large taxes that way in spite of the supposed tax benefits of ISOs.

Because in spite of Fred Brooks and his MMM, ordinary people still believe that if you work more hours the project will get done faster, and will pressure you to become full-time.

Spite in a sentence as a verb

Even in spite of that, Python already has a large academic following; if PyPy manages to pull off its stated goals, it would be revolutionary.

Oracle claims that the API is protected by copyright and that Google infringed various API elements by copying the structure, etc. in spite of its having done so through a clean-room development.

Mark Zuckerberg may be an exception; he's too young and too successful to have a refined skill at the judgment of character, so I'll give him a pass, because he seems to be a good guy in spite of his visible mistakes.

I'm very positive on its ability to unlock potential, trigger insights, expand perspective, and facilitate learning, even in spite of having experienced a few bad trips.

The book's protagonist has this to say:"Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything.

Not only is this not true, but believing it is dangerous for two reasons: The first is that if in spite of everything you do not "succeed" you may come to believe this is the result of some personal failing; this may be, but it certainly not necessarily so.

Like with anything else, the question isn't whether the rich will be able to afford it, the question is how much progress can we make in making it cheap, how quickly, to get it to how many people?It is a moral imperative to make sure that short-sighted class warfare does not cut off the nose to spite the face by destroying this work under the guise of egalitarianism, because we can not turn on a dime and immediately grant it to everyone on day one. Yes, the rich will get it first.

Spite definitions

noun

feeling a need to see others suffer

See also: malice maliciousness spitefulness venom

noun

malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty

See also: cattiness bitchiness spitefulness nastiness

verb

hurt the feelings of; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised my ego"

See also: hurt wound injure bruise offend