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Definition of Vindictive
Vindictive

Disposed to revenge; prompted or characterized by revenge; revengeful.

Punitive.

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Vindictive Quotations

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.
Reinhold Niebuhr

I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.
James Thurber

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
W. Somerset Maugham

I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
Bram Stoker

I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.
Yancy Butler

Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day.
Warren Farrell

Vindictive Translations

vindictive in Spanish is reivindicativo


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