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.

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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

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

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

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

Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
Jose Marti

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

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Adlai E. Stevenson

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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