adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"I'll pay her back for this.'' "Don't be so vindictive . It doesn't help anyone.''
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After the divorce Joan's ex-husband became increasingly vindictive .
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Doug could be nasty and vindictive when he was drinking.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A conservative columnist, George Will, provides a more vindictive answer.
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Accurately, though unfairly, contemporary critics of the Futurists denounced them with the vindictive labels: photographic, cinematic.
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Depriving our police force of a cup of tea is astronomically vindictive and silly.
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He's not a vindictive person.
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He never destroyed a witch simply on the say-so of vindictive enemies.
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Humans are specialized in vindictive behavior.
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She was vindictive , vulgar; she wanted to hurt him.
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What vindictive irony, to force Digby to sacrifice his entire career in transport over a railways announcement!