Approval and Spite

Opposite meaning words

Approval noun - An acceptance of something as satisfactory.

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Spite is an antonym for approval.

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

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Approval is an antonym for spite in hateful feeling topic.

Nearby Words: spiteful, spitefully, spiting

human	human approval	human spite
complete	complete approval	complete spite
genuine	genuine approval	genuine spite
divine	divine approval	divine spite
Other adjectives: sarcastic, personal, general, maximum.

Evil Is Petty: Frank would happily die just to spite Rod and make sure he'll never get his approval.

Source: Film / Hot Rod
In the end, he left office with a record high end-of-term approval rating, with voters viewing him as a Bunny-Ears Lawyer who left behind a strong economy even in spite of his own personal issues.

Source: Contractual Purity
After ruling her home planet of Charn as a cruel and capricious tyrant with a 0% Approval Rating and on the eve of defeat by her own subjects, Jadis out of pure spite uttered the deplorable word, resulting in the death of every living thing on the planet except herself.

Source: Depopulation Bomb

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