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the fuel that builds fences, burns bridges, and somehow outlasts every good intention you ever had
means A petty desire to hurt, annoy, or thwart someone, often even at cost to yourself, driven purely by ill will rather than gain.
from A shortening of 'despite,' which came through Old French 'despit' from Latin 'despectus' — a looking down, contempt — the noun of 'despicere,' to despise (literally 'to look down on,' from 'de-' down + 'specere' to look). So buried in the word is a glance cast downward: spite begins, fittingly, with someone looking down their nose at you.
spite housesOwners built absurdly thin homes to enrage neighbors
survival edgeStudies link spite to ultimatum-game rejections worldwide
latin rootFrom despectus, meaning to look down upon
cutting factPeople accept losses just to deny others gains
spite fencesMany states have laws specifically banning them