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单词 spite
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spitenoun

uk/spaɪt/us/spaɪt/

spite noun (DESPITE)

in spite of sth

More examples

  • In spite of unification, the country was still faced with the daunting prospect of overcoming four decades of division.
  • In spite of the scale of the famine, the relief workers struggled on with dauntless optimism and commitment.
  • In spite of its election success, the government is still deeply distrusted on key health and education issues.
  • In spite of our best endeavours, it has proven impossible to contact her.
  • Jane's been unfaithful to Jim three times, but he still loves her in spite of everything.

B1 (used before one fact that makes another fact surprising) despite:

In spite of his injury, Ricardo will play in Saturday's match.
in spite of yourself

used when you do something that you do not intend to do and are trying not to do:

She started to laugh, in spite of herself .

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Linguistics: connecting words which express a contrast

  • again
  • any way you slice it idiom
  • at any rate idiom
  • at least idiom
  • best
  • but
  • disjunctive
  • given
  • hand
  • however
  • least
  • might
  • never
  • nevertheless
  • rate
  • seeing (that)
  • slice
  • tooth
  • when
  • whereas

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spite noun (HURT)

C2 [ U ] a feeling of anger towards another person that makes someone want to annoy, upset, or hurt them, especially in a small way:

He's the sort of man who would let down the tyres on your car just out of/from spite.

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Anger and displeasure

  • acrimonious
  • anger
  • animus
  • annoyance
  • bad feeling
  • flap
  • fuss
  • get the hump idiom
  • gorge
  • grit
  • grit your teeth idiom
  • grudge
  • hard feelings idiom
  • irritation
  • rancour
  • resent
  • resentful
  • road rage
  • slow burn
  • sour grapes idiom

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spiteverb [ T ]

uk/spaɪt/us/spaɪt/

to intentionally annoy, upset, or hurt someone:

I almost think he died without making a will just to spite his family.

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Treating people or animals badly

  • a raw deal idiom
  • at the hands of sb idiom
  • batten
  • batten on sb
  • be heavy on sb idiom
  • bleed
  • jerk
  • jerk sb around
  • knife
  • knock
  • knock sb around
  • put sb through sth
  • sexual harassment
  • shit on sb
  • shortchange
  • shove
  • shove sb around
  • torment
  • walk
  • walk all over sb idiom

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