spiting
- 1Present participle and gerund of spite.
He was spiting his landlord by paying the rent entirely in coins.
Spiting her critics, she released the album exactly as she had planned.
Note
The -ing form drops the silent e of spite and keeps a single t. Like its verb, it is transitive and needs a direct object, usually the person being thwarted: spiting a landlord, spiting one's critics. In older writing it could also mean simply hating or being angry at someone, a sense now obsolete. The milder 'vexing' sense survives, so spiting someone can mean either working against them or getting under their skin.
spiting is a form of spite
spite, verb: To treat someone maliciously, trying to hurt them or thwart what they want. Full entry
- Spelling
- spite → spiting: drop the e, add -ing
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