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vindictive
/vɪnˈdɪk.tɪv/
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What does vindictive mean?
adjective
- Having a tendency to seek revenge when wronged, vengeful.
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adjective
- (obsolete) Punitive.
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/vɪnˈdɪk.tɪv/
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On the other hand, he can be as sullen, inefficient, stupid, and vindictive as any man of any race on earth.
It required the dictation of the vindictive and malevolent Fenayrou to crystallise her hatred of Aubert into a deliberate participation in his murder.
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His dark, handsome, aquiline features were convulsed into a spasm of vindictive hatred, which had set his dead face in a terribly fiendish expression.
He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew too well.
Some of the men thought we ought to be vindictive and take every opportunity to put a crimp in the business for the owners.