spite

However, on Nov. 3, Mississippi voters showed up and showed out in numbers that are proving to be insurmountable, in spite of all the barriers they face.

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2026

In spite of a pair of Russian-aligned hacktivist groups claiming they were responsible on Wednesday, few believed them.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

The nation also elected several historic firsts, including the first Muslim senator, the first openly gay male senator and the first Black female governor, in spite of Republican campaign attacks around identity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

In spite of, or perhaps because of its history, the town these days is a wellspring of devotion.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

“The parents gave the twins anything they wanted. They never scolded them or made them work. In spite of this, the children didn’t feel happy. ‘We don’t belong in this world anymore,’ they decided.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

“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

In actual life you are hot, tired, bored, headachy, "spited with fools," what not.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

There was anger in the eyes of all; they were spited at not receiving the riscatta.

From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Mayne Reid

To confess the truth, tia, I was a little spited myself at first.

From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid

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