What's the difference between shite and smite?

Shite


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As one sports fan put it ruefully: "Nobody ever lost money underestimating the British public's appetite to buy shite."
  • (2) In the words of one Lib Dem Minister: "It will be shite."
  • (3) The latter is "a great place if you're under three or over 53; shite if you're anywhere in between," said Dan Kieran, deputy editor of the Idler, who launched the hunt for crapness last year on the magazine's website.
  • (4) "They don't come and stand in the crowd and go, 'Oh, thanks for the fucking 10-quid bag of shite, would you mind being in my film?'"
  • (5) The effect of short-term (6 months) administration of conjugated equine estrogen (Premarin) on content and composition of the aortic sterols in male shite Carneau pigeons while they were on a cholesterol-free grain diet was investigated.
  • (6) I'm thinking the one last time from ITV (over the cover of Hurt by Johnny Cash) was genuinely moving but looking at it now its shite .
  • (7) Allardyce, when told of his opposite number's comments, laughed and said: "I don't give a shite, to be honest."
  • (8) Bucks New University, in High Wycombe, concluded that an improved Facebook page carrying reviews of students' experiences was a must, with all the risks that came with that ("Shite", posted one unhappy alumnus).
  • (9) I said to him: "You know your early films were so good … would you say the ones that came directly after were a bag of shite?"
  • (10) "If you actually sit down and listen to them, there are some great moments, but there's a lot of shite, too."
  • (11) Even the bargain basement offering, described by one esteemed critic as 'shite food and less than half a bottle of mediocre wine', will set competitors back £244 each - far more than a meal for two at an exclusive restaurant.
  • (12) "Not content with spewing shite (as always), he's decided that Wesley Sneijder is called Wesley 'Sneijders'.
  • (13) Perhaps fragile and emotionally vulnerable students could be given an introductory series of lectures on how life can be utterly shite at times and a bit rough, too.
  • (14) Alternatively, don’t poison the fishing waters, abduct his great-grandparents into slavery, then turn up 400 years later on your gap year talking a lot of shite about fish.” We can’t put a price on the suffering wrought by colonialism.
  • (15) He can tell me that all he wants, I don’t give a shite.
  • (16) And in your heart you kind of know that although it sounds all right, it's actually just shite… The fear of having "had it, lost it", of knowing in your heart that it sounds just "all right", often seems to propel Danny Boyle's own career in its unpredictable and fast-forward course.
  • (17) And rather the fact-based miseries of these poor bastards than the fictional boohooisms of fellow "It were shite back then" costume grumbler The Village.
  • (18) The book includes a magnificently scathing 2001 resignation email to the NME , railing against sexism, “shite tunes” and pandering to the lowest common denominator – but she forgot to press “send”.
  • (19) Especially now with all the shite magazines – people wanna write about what fucking shoes you're wearing.

Smite


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To strike; to inflict a blow upon with the hand, or with any instrument held in the hand, or with a missile thrown by the hand; as, to smite with the fist, with a rod, sword, spear, or stone.
  • (v. t.) To cause to strike; to use as an instrument in striking or hurling.
  • (v. t.) To destroy the life of by beating, or by weapons of any kind; to slay by a blow; to kill; as, to smite one with the sword, or with an arrow or other instrument.
  • (v. t.) To put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war.
  • (v. t.) To blast; to destroy the life or vigor of, as by a stroke or by some visitation.
  • (v. t.) To afflict; to chasten; to punish.
  • (v. t.) To strike or affect with passion, as love or fear.
  • (v. i.) To strike; to collide; to beat.
  • (n.) The act of smiting; a blow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He has realised what he's dealing with in mankind, and thinks, without saying it to Noah: "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth, neither will I smite any more every thing living, as I have done."
  • (2) George Osborne has seized on that as a stick to smite critics ( such as Vince Cable? )
  • (3) Before he was shackled to Hawley for eternity Smoot was more famous for his Mormonism and his abhorrence of bawdy books, a disgust that inspired the immortal headline “Smoot Smites Smut” after he attacked the importation of Lady’s Chatterley’s Lover, Robbie Burn’s more risqué poems and their like as “worse than opium … I would rather have a child of mine use opium than read these books.” But it was imports of another kind that secured Smoot and Hawley’s place in infamy.
  • (4) ‘Barack Obama and George W Bush rigged 2008’ Devil Smite (@redletterdave) facebook's promoting of fake news stories is getting out of hand.
  • (5) They're even less important when you've invented celestial Power Rangers which descend from the heavens and smite Sodom right up (this happens, pretty much).
  • (6) If all goes according to plan, those who have been "saved" by Jesus will rise into the air in the Rapture and look down as God smites billions of nonbelievers with a great earthquake rolling from city to city across the planet, and a bit of fire to boot.
  • (7) 'I could tell you the truth once you've taken the blow; if you smite me smartly I could spell out the facts of my house and home and my name, if it helps, then you'll pay me a visit and vouch for our pact.
  • (8) Children are welcome to ring the bell held by the medieval figure of Jack-smite-the-clock while you inspect the damage wrought by the Suffolk-born iconoclast William "Basher" Dowsing during the civil war: he scrubbed the faces from all the finely painted apostles and saints on the rood screen.
  • (9) He distances himself rather, though he does still need a reminder not to smite Earth's entirely smite-worthy inhabitants.
  • (10) The other side of using commissions and inquiries to smite your enemies is concocting them to legitimate your own political actions.
  • (11) In short, the Contempt of Court Act is circling over the media, waiting to smite those who go too far.
  • (12) One of his favourite words is "smite", as in someone (often a sportswriter) "having a smite" at him.