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Malice; malignity; spite; malicious anger; contemptuous hate.

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  1. n. Malice; malignity; spite; malicious anger; contemptuous hate.
  2. n. An act of malice, hatred, or defiance; contemptuous defiance; a deed of contempt.
  3. n. To vex; to annoy; to offend contemptuously.
  4. prep. In spite of; against, or in defiance of; notwithstanding; as, despite his prejudices.
  5. n. lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
  6. n. contemptuous disregard
  7. i:100 n. contemptuous disregard