vindictive
Speech parts
1. vindictive - Adjective
2. vindictive - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Disposed to revenge; prompted or characterized by revenge; revengeful.
Punitive.
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It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.
I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South its dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings, and have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.
The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely argumentative and vindictive.
I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.
The narrowest patriotism could be made to appear noble, the foulest accusations could be represented as an indignant outburst of humanitarianism, and the meanest and most vindictive aims falsely disguised as idealism. Everything was legitimate which could make the soldiers go on fighting.