Sentence:  Out of <WSD>spite</WSD>, the human beings pretended not to believe that it was Snowball who had destroyed the windmill: they said that it had fallen down because the walls were too thin. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; a desire to vex or injure; petty malice