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The synonyms of “Spite” are: bitchiness, cattiness, nastiness, spitefulness, malice, maliciousness, venom, ill will, ill feeling, bitterness, animosity, hostility, antagonism, enmity, resentment, rancour, malevolence, spleen, gall, malignance, malignity, evil intentions, envy, hate, hatred, vengeance, vengefulness, vindictiveness, bruise, hurt, injure, offend, wound, upset, distress
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “spite” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| animosity | Strong hostility. He no longer felt any animosity towards her. |
| antagonism | An actively expressed feeling of dislike and hostility. The antagonism between them. |
| bitchiness | Malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty. |
| bitterness | Sharpness of taste; lack of sweetness. He expressed bitterness over his dismissal without notice. |
| cattiness | Malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty. |
| enmity | A state of deep-seated ill-will. Decades of enmity between the two countries. |
| envy | A person or thing that inspires envy. She felt a twinge of envy for the people on board. |
| evil intentions | Morally objectionable behavior. |
| gall | The contents of the gall bladder bile proverbial for its bitterness. Accept life s gall without blaming somebody else. |
| hate | An intensely disliked person or thing. Feelings of hate and revenge. |
| hatred | Intense dislike; hate. Racial hatred. |
| hostility | The feeling of a hostile person. He could no longer contain his hostility. |
| ill feeling | An often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining. |
| ill will | An often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining. |
| malevolence | The quality of threatening evil. His eyes were glowing with malevolence. |
| malice | Wrongful intention, especially as increasing the guilt of certain offences. I bear no malice towards anybody. |
| maliciousness | Feeling a need to see others suffer. |
| malignance | The quality of being malign. A spirit of pure unadulterated malignance towards the world. |
| malignity | Wishing evil to others. |
| nastiness | The state or quality of being nasty. I flinched at the nastiness of his wound. |
| rancour | A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will. He spoke without rancour. |
| resentment | A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will. His resentment at being demoted. |
| spitefulness | Feeling a need to see others suffer. |
| spleen | A large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body between the stomach and the diaphragm; produces cells involved in immune responses. He could vent his spleen on the institutions which had duped him. |
| vengeance | Punishment inflicted or retribution exacted for an injury or wrong. For vengeance I would do nothing This nation is too great to look for mere revenge. |
| vengefulness | A malevolent desire for revenge. |
| venom | A poisonous substance secreted by animals such as snakes, spiders, and scorpions and typically injected into prey or aggressors by biting or stinging. Her true venom seems reserved for the media itself. |
| vindictiveness | A malevolent desire for revenge. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “spite” as a verb can have the following definitions:
| bruise | Cause a bruise or bruises to appear on a fruit vegetable or plant. I will admit that my pride was bruised by his comment. |
| distress | Bring into difficulties or distress especially financial hardship. The manner in which leather jackets are industrially distressed. |
| hurt | Hurt the feelings of. Were you hurting after the accident. |
| injure | Do injustice or wrong to (someone). A libel calculated to injure the company s reputation. |
| offend | Cause to feel resentment or indignation. 17 per cent of viewers said they had been offended by bad language. |
| upset | Defeat suddenly and unexpectedly. This book upset me. |
| wound | Inflict a wound on. You really wounded his pride when you turned him down. |
| acrimony | Bitterness or ill feeling. The AGM dissolved into acrimony. |
| animosity | Strong hostility. He no longer felt any animosity towards her. |
| avenge | Inflict harm in return for an injury or wrong on behalf of (oneself or another. We must avenge our dead. |
| enmity | The feeling of a hostile person. Decades of enmity between the two countries. |
| feud | Carry out a feud. A savage feud over drugs money. |
| gloat | An act of gloating. His enemies gloated over his death. |
| grievance | A feeling of resentment over something believed to be wrong or unfair. He was nursing a grievance. |
| grudge | Bear a grudge harbor ill feelings. Holding a grudge. |
| hatred | The emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action. His murderous hatred of his brother. |
| malevolence | The state or condition of being malevolent; hostility. His eyes were glowing with malevolence. |
| malice | Wrongful intention, especially as increasing the guilt of certain offences. I bear no malice towards anybody. |
| maliciousness | Feeling a need to see others suffer. |
| mischief | The quality or nature of being harmful or evil. She was bent on making mischief. |
| rancor | A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will. |
| rancour | A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will. He spoke without rancour. |
| reprisal | An act of retaliation. Three youths died in the reprisals which followed. |
| requital | A justly deserved penalty. |
| resentment | Bitter indignation at having been treated unfairly. His resentment at being demoted. |
| retaliate | Take revenge for a perceived wrong. They used their abilities to retaliate the injury. |
| retaliation | The action of returning a military attack; counter-attack. The bombings are believed to be in retaliation for the trial of 15 suspects. |
| retribution | The act of correcting for your wrongdoing. Divine retribution. |
| revenge | Inflict revenge on behalf of someone else. Zimbabwe snatched the game 18 16 but the Spanish had their revenge later. |
| swear | An offensive word used especially to express anger a swear word. They were reluctant to swear allegiance. |
| vendetta | A blood feud in which the family of a murdered person seeks vengeance on the murderer or the murderer’s family. He has accused the British media of pursuing a vendetta against him. |
| vengeance | The act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life–Romans 12:19. He swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him. |
| vengeful | Disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge- Shakespeare- M.R.Cohen. A vengeful ex con. |
| venom | Extreme malice and bitterness shown in someone’s attitudes, speech, or actions. Her true venom seems reserved for the media itself. |
| vindictive | Showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite. The criticism was both vindictive and personalized. |
| wickedness | Estrangement from god. The wickedness of the regime. |
| wreak | Cause (a large amount of damage or harm. The environmental damage wreaked by ninety years of phosphate mining. |
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