A malevolent desire for revenge.
The disposition of being vengeful; expressing a strong wish to punish someone who has harmed you.
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Examples for "vindictiveness "
1 It's always best to negotiate from a position of strength and vindictiveness .
2 It outraged the Mexicans, and excited the vindictiveness of the Liberal party.
3 The mob showed their keen vindictiveness in their treatment of his body.
4 But he had the heroic virtues-courageand generosity and freedom from vindictiveness .
5 His resentment against the pinch of circumstance was deepening to cancerous vindictiveness .
1 I knew Phorenice's vengefulness , and had a high value for her cleverness.
2 This he thought in the vengefulness of his outraged mind.
3 The other is the growing culture of public vengefulness .
4 The treatment of the first Mrs Kent could have stirred her youngest daughter into vengefulness .
5 Their vengefulness and their severe exactions caused them to lose the fruits of their victory.
6 There wasn't a particle of vengefulness about Miss Hastings.
7 And America detected that in him, along with the bonhomie and vengefulness , the insouciance and impulsivity.
8 Among the crowds tales more and more wonderful were related of the vengefulness of the Christian God.
9 These proceedings had all the cold vengefulness of a death-sentence, and the cruelty of a sentence of exile.
10 During this period of Lincoln's brief vengefulness , Stanton thought that his time for clearing scores with McClellan had come.
11 What was there in him, still, that justified such persistent effort on life's part, such stubbornness, or perhaps just vengefulness ?
12 Under the influence of his methodical preparations, his emotions had cooled appreciably, taking on a cast of cold malignant vengefulness .
13 It is vengefulness , lust of destruction, that tempts the Austrian aeroplanes across the Adriatic-theessential spirit of the barbarian which the
14 Any one who could have studied the vengefulness of his face would have seen that it boded ill for some one.
15 Where once was a funny, charming, and clever person, there was now just a desiccated husk of anger, bitterness and vengefulness .
16 She would kill in an instant were it not that her vengefulness is overcome by gratitude to the benefactress of her mother.
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