(n.) Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite.

(n.) Vexation; chargrin; mortification.

(v. t.) To be angry at; to hate.

(v. t.) To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.

(v. t.) To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.

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• One sees very little about it in the newspapers and popular magazines, in spite of the fact that it is the keystone, so to speak, of the motion-picture industry. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• But in spite of their efforts to be as cheery as larks, the flutelike voices did not seem to chord as well as usual, and all felt out of tune. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Yes, in spite of all her present anxieties, that was the look on her face. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• And all this your laws give him power to do, in spite of God or man. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• He was determined to make a fortune out of cotton-spinning, and he did, in spite of the loss of his patents, and the rivals who were always pursuing him. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• In spite of such support, and its strong appeal to national vanity, British imperialism never saturated the mass of the British peoples. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The Earl had procured a pair of horses somehow, in spite of Mrs. Crawley, and was rolling on the road to Ghent. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Spites, affronts, offences giv' and took, deadly aggrawations, such like,' answered Riderhood. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The world of Islam was rent in twain by the spites, greeds, and partisan silliness of a handful of men and women in Medina. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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