vindictiveness

Noun

Meaning

The condition of being vindictive.

A malevolent desire for revenge.

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In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. Cyril Connolly

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

There was more vindictiveness shown to me by the Virginia people for my voting for Grant than the North showed to me for fighting four years against him. John S. Mosby

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution. John Lydon

Human nature: vindictiveness lightly coated with dishonesty. Celia Green

Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness. Breyten Breytenbach

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