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spite fence

noun

  1. a wall or fence erected solely to annoy one's neighbor or lower the value of their property.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of spite fence1

An Americanism dating back to 1895–1900
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Example Sentences

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And has he mellowed in old age?—for the spite fence is torn down!

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It came to be called the spite fence.

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State, Justice and Defense Department officials worked up the reprisal that, with White House approval, was put into effect last week�a sort of spite fence around some 400 Soviet citizens in the U.S.

He got some idea 21 years ago when his neighbor in Scarsdale built a 6-ft. spite fence between their houses.

An undertaker who owned a small house in the same block refused to sell it; Crocker built a spite fence 40 feet high, completely enclosing his neighbor's home.

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