Anagrams of: DESPITEOUS

• (usually plural) weather deck; the part of a ship's hull that is above the waterline

• a step to one side (as in boxing or dancing)

• avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

• choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans

• take in marriage; married

• take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own

• someone authorized to exercise the powers of sheriff in emergencies

• an assistant with power to act when his superior is absent

• a member of the lower chamber of a legislative assembly (such as in France)

• a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others

• a disagreement or argument about something important

• coming into conflict with

• take exception to

• have a disagreement over something

• a happening that is distinctive in a series of related events

• a brief section of a literary or dramatic work that forms part of a connected series

• a part of a broadcast serial

• film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie