spite Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun feeling a need to see others suffer
spitefulness; maliciousness; malice; venom.
noun malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty
spitefulness; cattiness; bitchiness; nastiness.
verb hurt the feelings of
injure; wound; bruise; hurt; offend.
- She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests
- This remark really bruised my ego

Abbreviated fr. despite.

Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite. Pope.
This is the deadly spite that angers. Shak.
Vexation; chargrin; mortification. R. Shak. Syn. -- Pique, rancor; malevolence; grudge. -- Spite, Malice. Malice has more reference to the disposition, and spite to the manifestation of it in words and actions. It is, therefore, meaner than malice, thought not always more criminal. " Malice . . . is more frequently employed to express the dispositions of inferior minds to execute every purpose of mischief within the more limited circle of their abilities." Cogan. "Consider eke, that spite availeth naught." Wyatt. See Pique.

imperfect & past participle Spited; present participle & verbal noun Spiting

To be angry at; to hate. Obs.
The Danes, then . . . pagans, spited places of religion. Fuller.
To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.
To fill with spite; to offend; to vex. R.
Darius, spited at the Magi, endeavored to abolish not only their learning, but their language. Sir. W. Temple.