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Not being vindictive by nature, Grant did what he could to see that the Confederate prisoners were treated well.vindictive = inclined to seek revenge or desirous of hurting others
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She's not a vindictive person.
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She's an unhappy, vindictive woman.vindictive = inclined to want to hurt others--especially for revenge
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Which heir was the target of Westing's vindictiveness? (source)vindictiveness = desire for revenge
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Fear and anger can make us vindictive and abusive, unjust and unfair, until we all suffer from the absence of mercy and we condemn ourselves as much as we victimize others. (source)vindictive = full of desire to hurt others
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By the force of her vindictive will, as much as by the training the soldiers endured for ten hours of every lunar cycle, her army was at last ready. (source)vindictive = revengeful or full of desire to hurt another
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His vindictive nature was demonstrated long before the witchcraft began. (source)vindictive = desirous of hurting others
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A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge-hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. (source)vindictiveness = desire to hurt othersstandard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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"That'll teach them," he thought vindictively. (source)vindictively = in a manner full of the desire to hurt others
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The cow would stand there knee-deep in the mist and look at the black blur and the blaze and then, not turning its head, at the place where the black blur and blaze had been, with the remote, massive, unvindictive indifference of God-Almighty or Fate or me, if I were standing there knee-deep in the mist, and the blur and the blaze whizzed past and withered on off between the fields and the patches of woods.† (source)unvindictive = not revengeful or maliciousstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unvindictive means not and reverses the meaning of vindictive. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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But there was a good deal of comment at the time—nine people out of ten thought Seton was innocent and that the judge's summing up had been vindictive. (source)vindictive = revengeful or full of desire to hurt another
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It can be tainted by power plays, jealousy, resentment, vindictiveness, and even abuse.† (source)
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(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.) (source)vindictively = with revenge or malice (desire to harm)
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He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well. (source)vindictive = full of a desire to hurt others
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Her lies, her vindictiveness, her score-settling.† (source)
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and thought of the trip she'd made to Rome many years ago, for study and spiritual renewal, and she'd swayed beneath the great domes and prowled the catacombs and church basements and this is what she thought as the riders came up to the street, how she'd stood in a subterranean chapel in a Capuchin church and could not take her eyes off the skeletons stacked there, wondering about the monks whose flesh had once decorated these metatarsals and femurs and skulls, many skulls heaped in alcoves and hidey-holes, and she remembered thinking vindictively that these are the dead who will come out of the earth to lash and cudgel the living, to punish the sins of the living—death, yes, triumphant.† (source)
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