spite

"If you look back over the year to date, the market's shown remarkable resilience in spite of those pressures," said Mottram.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

“That’s the competitive greatness — to find a way in spite of some different things that maybe didn’t go our way.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

For an intelligent man and fluent historian, this spite work on the royals—for that is it what it is—is written with all the subtlety of a rabid corgi.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

This is in spite of their critical role in a healthy environment.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

In spite of this and other changes, life for the three of us—Father, Betsie, and me—stayed essentially the same.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

“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

It is tune the old cold warrior hung up his spites.

From Time Magazine Archive

There are "get-out-of-my-sight" scenes that have not been witnessed since Bette Davis hung up her spites.

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

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

It is not, however, to be supposed that the Beechhurst people spited themselves so far as to keep away from the rector's school-treat because they did not love the rector.

From The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax by Holme Lee

It seems that our hero, considering himself spited by a Latin- grammar master, demanded the satisfaction due from one man of honour to another.

From Holiday Romance by Charles Dickens

But these young people, after the manner of men were spited with fortune; and indeed they had some cause.

From Wylder's Hand by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

In Free, she depicts it as a bored child, picking her up and putting her down, chewing her up and spiting her out "a hundred times a day".

From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2022

And spitting is still socially acceptable - be it chewing tobacco, sportsmen spiting on camera or Bollywood portrayals of men spitting while fighting each other.

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2021

When James rejects the idea, Rhythm kidnaps Dom, spiting him away into a virtual “Serververse.”

From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2021

So do you not watch, to enlarge the collective spiting of him?

From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2021

He couldn’t get his way this time—not after threatening their fives and sending them to make Achelous miserable for the sake of spiting Hera.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan