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Definition of Despite |
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Despite
Malice; malignity; spite; malicious anger; contemptuous hate. An act of malice, hatred, or defiance; contemptuous defiance; a deed of contempt. To vex; to annoy; to offend contemptuously. In spite of; against, or in defiance of; notwithstanding; as, despite his prejudices. Related Definitions: Act, Against, An, Anger, Annoy, As, Contempt, Contemptuous, Contemptuously, Deed, Defiance, Despite, Hate, Hatred, His, In, Malice, Malicious, Malignity, Notwithstanding, Of, Offend, Or, Spite, To, Vex |
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Despite Quotations
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. Maya Angelou The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?" Sigmund Freud Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart. Anne Frank It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin. Dave Barry Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry. Norman Borlaug Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth. George Washington Carver I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing. Angelina Jolie Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether. Luis Bunuel Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers. Luis Bunuel Despite a decade of criticism and budget cuts, the specialised UN agencies have far more expertise and hands-on experience than any other organisations in the world. Jeffrey Sachs |
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Despite Translations
despite in Afrikaans is ten spyte van despite in Dutch is niettegenstaande, in weerwil van despite in Finnish is huolimatta despite in German is Verachtung, Verachtung, trotz despite in Italian is vilipendi, nonostante despite in Latin is odio despite in Norwegian is nag, til tross for despite in Portuguese is despeito despite in Spanish is menosprecio, a pesar de despite in Swedish is trots |
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