vindictive
IPA: vɪndˈɪktɪv
adjective
- Having a tendency to seek revenge when wronged, vengeful.
- (obsolete) Punitive.
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Examples of "vindictive" in Sentences
- So I called her vindictive, and then she just laughed at me.
- Lying will not get you in the WH; to be vindictive is non-Christian.
- Rather then calling Sarah's book "setting the record straight", the media call it vindictive.
- I realize that the word vindictive is a little strong for his comment to David, but there does seem to be some rancor coming from something.
- More than forty years of strife and struggle with the whisper that, by whatever name she called her vindictive pride and rage, nothing through all eternity could change their nature.
- And then the constant problem: how informed, smart, generous, dumb, ignorant or vindictive is the population, and what timeline do they consider — this year, or this century? bob h says:
- Again, she lied with good reason: to avoid being identified as a vindictive political power player who used the F.B.I. to ruin the lives of people standing in the way of juicy patronage.
- If her campaign was going to leak something like this, they’d do it anonymously, since this just makes her look vindictive, and making Hillary look vindictive is what Fox does, not what her campaign does.
- He painted in strong terms the incapacity, and what he called the vindictive and treacherous disposition, of the king; and declared, that to liberate him from the confinement under which he was now placed, would be to expose to certain death, a princess, who, by her wisdom and courage, had been the salvation of the state.
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