Comfort
Comfort verb - To ease the grief or distress of.
Spite
Spite verb - To disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts.
Usage example: sometimes, I swear, she keeps doing that just to spite me
How words are described
| human | human comfort | human spite |
| pure | pure comfort | pure spite |
| total | total comfort | total spite |
| genuine | genuine comfort | genuine spite |
| Other adjectives: superficial, bitter, idle, personal, general, last. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Instead of trying to comfort him, Baldrick honestly admits that Edmund is hated and mocked by everyone... but instead of breaking Edmund completely, this enrages him and makes him come up with a new plan to save his life, out of pure spite.
Source: You Are Not Alone -
In spite of having top notch equipment and comfort provisions on par with luxury hotels, Sector General routinely has to deal with sickest patients in the galaxy and nightmarish emergency scenarios.
Source: Literature / Sector General - The only comfort he has is that in spite of everything that transpired between them, Hashirama (briefly revived by the Edo Tensei), perhaps the only person to have ever truly empathize with him besides his brother Izuna, still considers them friends.
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