Adoration and Spite

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Adoration noun - The act of admiring strongly.

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Spite is an antonym for adoration.

Nearby Words: adorable, adoring, adored, adoringly, adorer

Spite noun - The desire to cause pain for the satisfaction of doing harm.

Usage example: spread cruel lies out of pure spite

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Adoration is an antonym for spite.

Nearby Words: spiteful, spitefully, spiting

genuine	genuine adoration	genuine spite
hopeless	hopeless adoration	hopeless spite

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