Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being vindictive; revengeful spirit; revengefulness.
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- noun The condition of being
vindictive - noun A
malevolent desire forrevenge
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a malevolent desire for revenge
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Examples
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Now when the TRUTH about her corruption, lack of ethics, abuse of power conviction, and vindictiveness is coming back on her, she plays victim and cuts and runs.
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It's amazing how her vindictiveness is coming back to haunt her.
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Mean-spirited and vindictiveness from the top down, eh, faux boy?
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They were part of efforts by Madikizela-Mandela to end what she has termed the vindictiveness of President Thabo Mbeki's and ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma's presidential campaigns.
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It is your want of judgment, your vindictiveness, that is the cause of my death.
Invisible Links Selma Lagerl��f 1899
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Second Conservative minister accused of blurring role of adviser Liam Fox apologises to MPs but condemns media 'vindictiveness' - video Follow all the top political stories of the day on Twitter with the Guardian and Observer's politics team
The Guardian World News Hélène Mulholland 2011
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This kind of vindictiveness is not what we want in a leader, we just had 7 yrs of that.
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SNEDDON: I'm not -- (UNINTELLIGIBLE) that characterization because that's unfair that there's some kind of vindictiveness involved here or fearlessness involved or retribution.
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How a young widow might feel to be told by her husband's first wife that she never really knew him, that she was merely a clueless latecomer – and what kind of vindictiveness would cause the first wife to say such a thing – seem to be matters of mere psychology beneath this author's notice.
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You knew me in "former days as mild," etc., and were not prepared for such a speech; you charitably suggest that its "vindictiveness" may be owing to a substitution of the reporter's language for my own, and "are not without hope of seeing a disclaimer."
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Matilda Joslyn Gage 1863
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