Definitions for spites

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spites spite

Spelling: [spahyt]

IPA: /spaɪt/

Spites is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 106 anagrams from letters in spites (eipsst).

Definitions for spites

noun

1. a malicious, usually petty, desire to harm, annoy, frustrate, or humiliate another person; bitter ill will; malice.
2. a particular instance of such an attitude or action; grudge.
3. Obsolete. something that causes vexation; annoyance.

Idioms

1. cut off one's nose to spite one's face. nose (def 23).
2. in spite of, in disregard or defiance of; notwithstanding; despite:

verb (used with object)

1. to treat with spite or malice.
2. to annoy or thwart, out of spite.
3. to fill with spite; vex; offend.

Origin of spites

1250-1300; Middle English; aphetic variant of despite

Examples for spites

Human meanness is never so pitiful as when it tries to seize on God's judgments as weapons with which to gratify its own spites.

There has been some spites and a good many mean doin's and sayin's—namin' no names.

I think there are quarrels and spites enough in the world, without brothers joining in with all the rest.

He spites him by damaging his plants all he can in a sly and ingenious way.

The world of Islam was rent in twain by the spites, greeds, and partisan silliness of a handful of men and women in Medina.

What envyings, spites, meannesses and miserable pettinesses arise from this greed of money!

She knew what spites were; but the god Pan and Apollo with his harp were unknown forms.

Surely the spites were gathering in force again, and this was their doing.

What spites and quarrels are still flourishing among my old neighbours which owe their origin to that election!

What can we know of the hundred spites and jealousies or other causes of malice which might have caused the crime?