(a.) Filled with, or showing, spite; having a desire to vex, annoy, or injure; malignant; malicious; as, a spiteful person or act.
Example Sentences:
(1) In spite of dense lymphocytic infiltration only 3% of the tumor infiltrating lymphocytes exhibit the activation marker CD 25.
(2) When labelled long-chain fatty acids or glycerol were infused into the lactating goat, there was extensive transfer of radioactivity into milk in spite of the absence of net uptake of substrate by the mammary gland.
(3) In spite of important differences in size, chemical composition, polymer density, and configuration, biological macromolecules indeed manifest some of the essential physical-chemical properties of gels.
(4) Mastitis in its complexity has managed to forestall all efforts of eradication in spite of years of research, antibiotics and practical control measures.
(5) In spite of antimalaria treatment, with cortisone and then with immuno-depressants, the outcome was fatal with a picture of acute reticulosis and neurological disorders.
(6) In spite of the presence of scar tissue following rhytidectomy, this procedure has been quite successful because of the rich blood supply in that area.
(7) By the GN of non-streptococcal etiology, AA's to the BLSE apparently of other specificity are obtained in some cases, in spite of the absence of antibodies to A-PS.
(8) In spite of the formation of the epoxide intermediate, no binding of [14C]d-limonene equivalents to mouse kidney proteins was observed.
(9) No cases of rheumatic fever and no acute nephritis appeared in spite of the vigorous immune response to both cellular and extracellular antigens of group A streptococci documented in 50% to 80% of patients, suggesting that strain variation may be a feature of rheumatogenicity as well as nephritogenicity of group A streptococcal pharyngitis.
(10) Clinical and inflammatory activity improved in both groups, but consistently more so in the auranofin group, in spite of the greater consumption of local steroids and NSAIDs in the placebo group.
(11) The reported case of fetal infection in spite of previous rubella vaccination of the mother does not discourage the use of rubella vaccine.
(12) Although operative mortality was significantly greater for women during most of this review period, mortality was similar during 1983 (2.6% for men versus 2.4% for women), in spite of a significantly higher incidence of unstable angina in the female group (54% for women versus 35% for men).
(13) The shapes of the curves for soleus and tibialis anterior are similar in spite of the different mechanical conditions of the two muscles.
(14) In spite of the limitations arising from the complex geometry of the right ventricule, echocardiography may be the most important non-invasive technique in the evaluation of the structural and functional repercussion of hypertension on the right ventricle.
(15) Thus, in spite of its excellent activity and unquestionable effectiveness, rifampicin should be used with caution in severe staphylococcal infections.
(16) My son was born healthy, strong and very handsome, in spite of his dangerous start.
(17) The great clinical value of the procedure is shown by the following findings:X-ray-negative lesions--including 2 cases of carcinoma--were found in 35 percent of the cases, radiologically demonstrated lesions could be defined more precisely in 18 percent, and the presence of colonic lesions could be ruled out in 11 percent in spite of equivocal X-ray findings.
(18) In spite of low fluoride content in their water supply, the findings revealed a generally low prevalence of caries experience (DMFT 1.26).
(19) In anesthetized cats, the enhancement of sympathetic activity and increase of the blood pressure in exclusion of afferents (section of vagosympathetic trunks and clamping of common carotid arteries) as well as the disappearance of the activity in enhanced afferentation, were shown to be transient and to disappear within a few minutes-scores of minutes in spite of the going on deafferentation or enhancement of afferentation.
(20) By modifying the spatial distribution of afferents to the network, we demonstrate that the same basic model functions properly in spite of afferents with nonuniform background firing rates.
Waspish
Definition:
(a.) Resembling a wasp in form; having a slender waist, like a wasp.
(a.) Quick to resent a trifling affront; characterized by snappishness; irritable; irascible; petulant; snappish.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was a waspish summary in which he noted that, while Pope Francis "may have renounced his own infallibility", Margaret Thatcher never did.
(2) It was Capote, not Vidal, who came up with the most waspish dismissal of Kerouac's work: "That's not writing, that's typing."
(3) His blog continued targeting senior Labour figures, and its waspish attacks got under Labour's skin.
(4) The result was a magnificently layered performance, in which Capote's waspish armour of wit came down to reveal an empathetic, vulnerable soul.
(5) In person, Wei is straight-laced and intellectually waspish.
(6) He conflates the scourge of drugs with everything from lottery winners to Oxbridge graduates who haven't heard of Mr Micawber , and has a hilarious gift for the waspish afterthought, as in: "Teachers are no longer really teachers.
(7) This three-parter scrubs up what co-star Mark Gatiss calls Benson’s “sly, funny and waspishly brilliant stories”.
(8) The French adoration of comic Jerry Lewis is a legendary, and the country at last got its wish: Lewis has a film at the Cannes film festival for the first time since 1989, and the 87-year-old duly turned up to receive the plaudits, waspishly shouting "[The French] kept me alive for 50 years!"
(9) Jane Austen has been confirmed as the next face of the £10 note – but for the quote that will feature on the reverse, the Bank of England is steering clear of her many waspish observations on the subject of money in favour of a line from Pride and Prejudice: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"
(10) At the Court, a Beckett diktat sat over his desk: “A theatre stage should have the maximum of verbal presence and the maximum of corporal presence.” To the end of his career, Gaskill was waspish and uncompromising; Callow pictures him as “a slightly frosty Socrates”, relentlessly asking “Why?” Gaskill is survived by a sister, Ruth, two nephews, Nicholas and Martin, and a niece, Gay.
(11) From Kenneth Williams to Tom Allen, there has always been a market for effeminate stylings allied to a waspish, holier-than-thou gentility.
(12) Pick up Jane Austen and everyone becomes a good target for a certain kind of waspish satire.
(13) Ed Howker and Shiv Malik stake out their complaint with a waspishness which comes from personal experience – the struggle to find somewhere to live in London, and to find a secure job.
(14) Gray's Butley is a waspish, self-destructive minor academic living in a permanent state of arrested adolescence.
(15) Photograph: PA Twitter Gary has 2.37 million followers, and it is here that Lineker's more waspish side is allowed out.
(16) Keith Waterhouse , Fleet Street columnist, wit, novelist, playwright and waspish social commentator who once described himself as "a tinroof tabernacle radical", has died at his home in London, aged 80, his family said .
(17) In a slot opposite the editorial often used for his waspish profiles, Christopher Stevens blasts the book for covering the star’s cocaine use – yet takes great pains to describe his behaviour in detail.
(18) Wenger was angry about the result and he was waspish when questioned about the decision to push Sánchez through the game.
(19) Waspishly, Briffa does also suggest however that another climate scientist, Kevin Trenberth, is "extremely defensive and combative when ever criticized about anything because he figures that he is smarter than everyone else and virtually infallible."
(20) Gaskell waspishly described her first sight of Charlotte in a letter: "She is underdeveloped, thin and more than half a head shorter than I ... [with] a reddish face, large mouth and many teeth gone; altogether plain."