Word: spitefully
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...Sometimes the phrase ‘cutting off one’s nose to spite one’s face’ has a sadly clear meaning,” Knowles wrote in an e-mail. “One can only be sad that a few intemperate residents will have blocked such a valuable improvement of their neighborhood...
Lee’s column is soaked in the mentality that the U.S. is responsible for everything good that ever happened to South Korea. Such sentiment would be unwelcome in South Korea, where the unspoken sentiment is that South Koreans achieved democracy not because of, but in spite of the U.S., in the past an eager supporter of the military dictatorships and possibly a silent accomplice in the Kwangju massacre of May 1980 that put down a swelling pro-democracy movement...
Though he has amassed a fortune selling access to celebrity, the never-married Fuller has kept a low profile by industry standards. In spite of the frenzy always surrounding him--when among industry types, he is literally pulled in all directions--his tanned face often sports a mellow half-grin. He is personable and loves to touch, offering hugs and hearty handshakes to anyone within reach...
...other highly educated and motivated students—students who, in spite of their accomplishments, are inconvenienced simply because of their national origins—decide not to remain in the U.S. because of similar trouble in acquiring visas, he says, the nation could suffer as a whole, inducing its own “brain drain...
After California outlawed the use of any racial classifications in public university admissions, the percentage of black and Hispanic students admitted to the best law schools in the UC system declined precipitously—in spite of these schools’ efforts to recoup minority enrollment by supposedly race-neutral means such as socioeconomic class. At UCLA law school, the percentage of admitted students who are black declined from 10.3 percent to 1.4 percent from 1996 to 2000. Berkeley, despite scrutinizing each application for evidence of “talents that were not identified by test scores or other standardized...