Pleasure and Spite

Opposite meaning words

Pleasure noun - The feeling experienced when one's wishes are met.

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Spite is an antonym for pleasure.

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

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Pleasure is an antonym for spite in hateful feeling topic.

Nearby Words: spiteful, spitefully, spiting

pure	pure pleasure	pure spite
genuine	genuine pleasure	genuine spite
sheer	sheer pleasure	sheer spite
actual	actual pleasure	actual spite
Other adjectives: personal, last, maximum.

Zander, Meade's security guard, couldn't care less about genders in spite of pleasure.

Source: Series / Ugly Betty
In spite of his violent reputation, he was one of the few Gods who didn't take pleasure in war, and reserved his violent tendencies for defending the gods from Jotnar.

Source: Martial Pacifist
Dalrymple is actually a bit more progressive on this point than some of his contemporaries, granting that female sexual pleasure is possible, but only with the penetration of the male organ (in spite of all evidence to the contrary).

Source: Film / Hysteria

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