Sneer vs Spite - What's the difference?
sneer | spite |
To raise a corner of the upper lip slightly, especially in scorn
To utter with a grimace or contemptuous expression; to say sneeringly.
A facial expression where one slightly raises one corner of the upper lip, generally indicating scorn.
A display of contempt; scorn.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=8 Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; a desire to vex or injure; petty malice; grudge; rancor.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Vexation; chagrin; mortification.
To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.
(obsolete) To be angry at; to hate.
To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.
In lang=en terms the difference between sneer and spite
is that sneer is to utter with a grimace or contemptuous expression; to say sneeringly while spite is to fill with spite; to offend; to vex.As verbs the difference between sneer and spite
is that sneer is to raise a corner of the upper lip slightly, especially in scorn while spite is to treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.As nouns the difference between sneer and spite
is that sneer is a facial expression where one slightly raises one corner of the upper lip, generally indicating scorn while spite is ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; a desire to vex or injure; petty malice; grudge; rancor.As a preposition spite is
notwithstanding; despite.sneer
English
Verb
(en verb)- to sneer fulsome lies at a person
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=It was a casual sneer , obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.}}
See also
* snarlAnagrams
* ----spite
English
Etymology 1
From a shortening of (etyl) despit, from (etyl) despit (whence despite). Compare also Dutch spijt.Noun
(en-noun)- He was so filled with spite for his ex-wife, he could not hold down a job.
- They did it just for spite .
- This is the deadly spite that angers.
- "The time is out of joint: O cursed spite." Shakespeare, Hamlet
Verb
(spit)- She soon married again, to spite her ex-husband.
- The Danes, then pagans, spited places of religion. — Fuller.
- Darius, spited at the Magi, endeavoured to abolish not only their learning, but their language. — Sir. W. Temple.