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Meanings of vindictive in English

Disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge.

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Showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite.

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Examples for "spiteful"
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He wasn't mean or spiteful, just irresponsible and young for his age.
Impossible
2
Helen Garner: 'I used to feel spiteful because I never won prizes.
The Guardian
3
I hadn't come this far to bow down to a spiteful machine.
Sharper than a serpent's tooth
4
Suddenly the top of the carriage replied with spiteful flashes of red.
The Puppet Crown
5
She takes the highest moral ground, in a tone of spiteful politeness.
No Name
1
Very despiteful are they against us, and purpose to work us bitter mischief.
Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut
2
The young scoundrel has a puissant sword and despiteful ire.'
Carried Off: A Story of Pirate Times
3
It was a habit of mind-theonly revenge that I could take upon despiteful Fate.
The Inheritors
4
Hatred breeds hatred again, and things despiteful are done to those who despitefully use you.
Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut
5
We suffer not only the insults of a single nation, but despiteful use by all idolaters.
The Yoke / A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Chil...
Usage of vindictive in English
1
It's difficult to work up the energy to be vindictive these days.
Dante's numbers
2
The manners of Arthur were formal; his tastes moral; his temper vindictive.
The History of Tasmania, Volume I
3
August 22:-Veryprofane and vindictive in his accusations towards the prison officials.
Studies in Forensic Psychiatry
4
The presumption did not breed fear; it bred wrath, hot and vindictive.
The Taming of Red Butte Western
5
The vindictive designs of the King against the Church were not accomplished.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume ...
6
Hence the placid acceptance of military propaganda and even of vindictive exhortation.
Preaching and Paganism
7
There was something almost vindictive in the feeling that came to him.
The Coming of Bill
8
The particular rectumshitbreath jerkoff I'm referring to was a vindictive Persian prick.
86'd: a novel
9
And she went in, still hurling at Providence the same vindictive query.
Robert Elsmere
10
Unpopular outside her own party, she is described as vindictive and polarising.
The South African
11
The Clintons had long memories and a vindictive streak ten miles wide.
Game change: obama and the clintons, mccain and palin, and the r...
12
The friends of one moment might become vindictive foes of the next.
In the Amazon Jungle / Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper A...
13
And yet what James was feeling most was a sudden, vindictive certainty.
James Potter and the Morrigan Web
14
The frail old body quivered with the vindictive force of his answer.
Fraternity
15
We are not vindictive men; all we ask is for our own.
My Strangest Case
16
On this night, of all nights, I don't want to appear vindictive.
The South African
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United Kingdom
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