She accepted the invitation spite of her doubts.

Hamiltonian spite emerges when individuals pay a fitness cost to harm others, reducing their competitors' reproductive success.

The tour guide showed us several spite houses that had been built to block sunlight from a neighbor's garden.

The new spite house between their properties blocked sunlight and escalated the feud.

One couldn't help but feel moved in spite of oneself when the old dog finally found its way home.

He stood there, in spite of someone's teeth, glaring until the other person turned away.

Cutting off one's nose to spite one's face, she destroyed the only bridge that could have saved her job.

Refusing to cooperate with the new system will only cut off one's nose to spite one's face, leaving us all worse off.

She spitefully refused to congratulate him on his promotion.

She wrote the spitefullest note and slipped it under his door, then waited to see his reaction.