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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 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 |
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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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