spite

n

1. malice, malignity, malignance, malevolence, maliciousness, venom, ill will; animosity, antagonism, hostility, evil, evil eye; resentment, envy, jealousy, covetousness, cupidity.

2. grudge, hate, hatred, aversion, detestation, antipathy, contempt, abhorrence, loathing, odium, enmity, ill feeling; choler, acerbity, acrimony, bitterness, gall, bile, spleen, virulence, invidiousness, viciousness.

3. pique, anger, ire, wrath, dudgeon; vengeance, re-vengefulness, feud, bad blood.

4. in spite of

despite, notwithstanding, regardless of; despite the fact that, although, albeit, even if, even so, for all that, even though, though; in the face of, disregarding, in disregard of, in defiance of, flying in the face of; overcoming, ignoring, in the teeth of, counter to, in the face of; disobeying, in conflict with, flouting, Fr. malgre.

v

5. injure, hurt, harm, abuse, attack, misuse; maltreat, inflict injury on, wound, Sl. shaft, Sl. do a-job on, Sl. let [s.o.] have it.

6. annoy, bother, pester, hector, harass, Sl. bug, Sl. hassle, Sl. drive [s.o.] up the wall, hound, dog, nag, pick on, pick at, Sl. ride, Inf. give [s.o.] a bad or hard time.

7. vex, offend, irritate, irk, pique; provoke, peeve, nettle, chafe, get on [s.o.'s] nerves, Inf. give [s.o.] a pain, Inf. rub [s.o.] the wrong way, Inf. get under [s.o.'s] skin.