“He's just doing it to spite me, but he's going to make this hell for me, for us.”

“But with just one day to go, fate spites me with a deluge and I shall drive to work draped in towels and with a cap on my head.”

“I think there are quarrels and spites enough in the world, without brothers joining in with all the rest.”

“He might find in his work a pax Scotorum from all the petty spites, insecurities of origins and intellectual impatience of their trade.”

“Of course he spited the poor young chap, and how could the fact be denied when the poor ghost had come back to ask for his blood?”

“But Tiny lived, and spited them, and waxed fat and bunchy, while Bunch astonished them all by waning lean and tiny.”

“The lawyer is the only man he hinders, by whom he is spited for taking up quarrels.”

“You're clearly far more interested in spiting this man than in considering the defense needs of the country.”

“It's further spiting me today by giving me some horrendous bowel cramps and spectacular diarrhoea.”

“She hadn't known what had become of her beloved mother, but she had to hope Benjamin was just spiting her.”