Spite vs Evil - What's the difference?
spite | evil |
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.
Intending to harm; malevolent.
Morally corrupt.
* Shakespeare
Unpleasant. (rfex)
Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxii. 19
* Shakespeare
* Milton
(obsolete) Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
* Bible, Matthew vii. 18
(computing, programming, slang) undesirable; harmful; bad practice
Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
* Bible, (Ecclesiastes). ix. 3
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, title= Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm.
* (John Milton)
* (William Shakespeare)
(obsolete) A malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula).
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* Addison
In obsolete terms the difference between spite and evil
is that spite is vexation; chagrin; mortification while evil is a malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula).As nouns the difference between spite and evil
is that 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 while evil is moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.As a verb spite
is to treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.As a preposition spite
is notwithstanding; despite.As an adjective evil is
intending to harm; malevolent.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.
See also
* malignant * maliciousEtymology 2
Statistics
*Anagrams
* ----evil
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Adjective
- Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil ?
- an evil plot to kill innocent people
- Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, / When death's approach is seen so terrible.
- He hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel.
- The owl shrieked at thy birth — an evil sign.
- Evil news rides post, while good news baits.
- an evil''' beast; an '''evil''' plant; an '''evil crop
- A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit.
- Global variables are evil ; storing processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused in a much more flexible way.
Synonyms
* nefarious * malicious * malevolent * See alsoAntonyms
* goodDerived terms
* evil eye * evil laugh * evil laughter * evilly * evil-minded * Evil One * evil twin * evilnessNoun
(wikipedia evil)- The heart of the sons of men is full of evil .
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The preposterous altruism too!
- evils which our own misdeeds have wrought
- The evil that men do lives after them.
- He [Edward the Confessor] was the first that touched for the evil .