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revengeful or maliciousLegal term: In some states, vindictive damages is synonymous with punitive damages.
- punishments...essentially vindictive in their nature
- more vindictive than jealous love
- (While he is speaking the faces of the gang have lighted up vindictively, as if all at once they saw a chance to revenge themselves.)Eugene O'Neill -- The Iceman Cometh
- She's still hateful and mean and vindictive.P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Betrayed
- a vindictive man will look for occasions for resentment
- He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.Bram Stoker -- Dracula
- That'll teach them," he thought vindictively.Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
- My voice may sound vindictive when I say: Make the defendant pay the highest penalty for his crimes!Richard Wright -- Native Son
- Always there is the sense of a tide behind them, rising, gathering mass, carrying with it a slow and vindictive rage.Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See
- I see that they were nothing else than the stipulated price for that vindictive old man's will.Henrik Ibsen -- An Enemy of the People
- The only thing lacking was the gloating desire I'd seen on the faces in my dream—the smiles of vindictive joy.Stephenie Meyer -- Breaking Dawn
- But there was a good deal of comment at the timenine people out of ten thought Seton was innocent and that the judge's summing up had been vindictive.Agatha Christie -- And Then There Were None
- He was a vicious male gossip, insatiably curious and vindictive without malice.John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
- His wife hadn't been cruel, she hadn't been vindictive.Nora Roberts -- Summer Pleasures
- "Why are you so vindictive towards me?" he said.D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers
- It has been my experience that children are every bit as cruel and vindictive as adults.Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance
- He flinched again when my cold skin touched his, and I smiled with slightly vindictive satisfaction.Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse
- Harry felt a kind of vindictive pleasure; he had not, of course, dreamed anything of the sort.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- If she'd had to take care of me all by herself, and had that to occupy her mind, maybe she'd have been able— TYRONE Goaded into vindictiveness.Eugene O'Neill -- Long Day's Journey into Night
- 'No!' returned Bray, urged by a vindictive impulse he could not repress.Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby
vindictively = with revenge or malice (desire to harm)
vindictive = revengeful or malicious