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vindictive
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But many others were still visible, had turned into lushes or junkies or had embarked on a nerve-rattling pursuit of the perfect psychiatrist; were vindictively married and progenitive and fat; were dreaming the same dreams they had dreamed ten years before, clothed these in the same arguments, quoted the same masters; and dispensed, as they hideously imagined, the same charm they had possessed before their teeth began to fail and their hair began to fall.†
p. 29.5
Ida looked into his eyes with an unreadable smile, which yet held some hint of the vindictive.†
p. 253.1
And laughter rang down the street behind this call, the suppressed, bawdy laughter of the Italians—for, after all, Vivaldo was one of them, and a male, and apparently, a gifted one—and the delighted, vindictive laughter of the Negroes.†
p. 299.7 *
But he felt rough hands on him and he looked down into Rufus' distorted and vindictive face.†
p. 382.3

Definitions:

(1) (vindictive)
desirous of seeking revenge or wanting to hurt someone
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Legal term: In some states, vindictive damages is synonymous with punitive damages.