Meanings of as vindictive in English

Unpopular outside her own party, she is described as vindictive and polarising.

The legislative bodies were fully as vindictive as individuals in the persecution of the Loyalists.

She's on a par with Frank: as vindictive, as morally ambiguous, and occasionally as fragile.

The suppression of the rebellion was as vindictive as the ingratitude which prompted it was heinous.

He has millions to use in asserting his claims, and is as vindictive as a wolf.

The Philistines as vindictive enemies are rendered necessary by the plan of the history (xxi.

It is their only way of making a living, and they are as vindictive as the devil.

I know you too well to believe you're half as vindictive as you try to make out.

Before being reproved and chastened we see her in history, as vindictive, unrelenting to pity, eager for retaliation.

Revenge is born of terror, and to think of God as vindictive is to think of Him as subject to fear.

They seem to look upon the departed as vindictive beings, and, I suspect, are more influenced by fear than by love.

Anyone advocating any sort of retribution is presented as vindictive and a member of the "hang 'em, flog 'em brigade".

When he thought of that the Gascon Royalist felt just as vindictive as did the chief agent of the Committee of General Security.

Nothing this administration has done has yet been as vindictive, as costly and as downright stupid as the Conservative abolition of the GLC.

She, I believed, in spite of fair face and evidences of culture, was as vindictive, barbarous, and relentless as the wildest in that savage band.

He is full of whims and crotchets, and if you once brush his feathers the wrong way he will be as vindictive as a parrot.