Disgust and Spite

Disgust

Disgust noun - A dislike so strong as to cause stomach upset or queasiness.

Spite and disgust are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Spite" instead the word "Disgust" as a noun or a verb.

Spite

Spite noun - The desire to cause pain for the satisfaction of doing harm.
Usage example: spread cruel lies out of pure spite

Disgust and spite are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Disgust" instead the word "Spite" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Words: spiteful, spitefully, spiting

How words are described

pure pure disgust pure spite
complete complete disgust complete spite
total total disgust total spite
genuine genuine disgust genuine spite
Other adjectives: sheer, sarcastic, bitter, personal, general, mere, growing.

Common collocations

guy disgust guy spite guy
people disgust people spite people
men disgust men spite men
parents disgust parents spite parents
Other words: audience, characters, doctor, friends, fans.

Both words in one sentence

  • Film / Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead But alas — in the meantime, she became a "left-wing lipstick lesbian liberal." In disgust over it, and to spite his ex-girlfriend, Arbie gets a job at the American Chicken Bunker.
  • In the fics How We Met and Radiant Garden Renegades, set in the same universe as Kingdom Hearts 3: Final Stand, Orochi Mae repeatedly expresses disgust at his son Kaname's kindness and virtue, openly telling him as such and going so far as to commit suicide in front of him out of spite.
  • Western Animation / Fire and Ice Despite rejecting the notion and expressing disgust at the idea earlier, when Teegra's brother comes to Nekron to attempt to negotiate for peace and her release, Nekron states that he just might keep her to mate with after all, purely just out of spite and to provoke her brother to aggression.
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