All 7 Uses of
vindictive
in
Catch-22
- There were many strange things taking place, but the strangest of all, to Clevinger, was the hatred, the brutal, uncloaked, inexorable hatred of the members of the Action Board, glazing their unforgiving expressions with a hard, vindictive surface, glowing in their narrowed eyes malignantly like inextinguishable coals.†
Chpt 8
- Men like Hungry Joe glowered at him with blameful hatred, and Appleby subjected him to vindictive discourtesy now that he had established himself as a hot pilot and a ping-pong player who never lost a point.†
Chpt 10
- 'Let go of me, you idiot!' he cried out furiously, glaring with vindictive approval as Nately leaped upon Yossarian's back and pulled him away.†
Chpt 12 *
- Let him stay that way, the colonel decided vindictively, just to show him who was boss and to safeguard himself against any loss of dignity that might devolve from his acknowledging the omission.†
Chpt 19
- 'Calling me crazy,' he shouted in a sputtering rage, 'is a typically sadistic and vindictive paranoiac reaction!†
Chpt 27
- He swept through the spacious, echoing lobby of the building in a temper of scalding and vindictive resentment.†
Chpt 36
- Yossarian responded to the thought by slipping away stealthily from the police and almost tripped over the feet of a burly woman of forty hastening across the intersection guiltily, darting furtive, vindictive glances behind her toward a woman of eighty with thick, bandaged ankles doddering after her in a losing pursuit.†
Chpt 39
Definition:
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(vindictive) desirous of seeking revenge or wanting to hurt someone