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vindictively

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vin·dic·tive  (vn-dktv)
adj.
1. Disposed to seek revenge; revengeful.
2. Marked by or resulting from a desire to hurt; spiteful.
[From Latin vindicta, vengeance, from vindex, vindic-, surety, avenger; see vindicate.]
vin·dictive·ly adv.
vin·dictive·ness n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adv.1.vindictivelyvindictively - in a vindictive, revengeful manner; "he plotted vindictively against his former superiors"
revengefully, vengefully
Translations
vindictively [vɪnˈdɪktɪvlɪ] ADV (= vengefully) → vengativamente, con afán de venganza; (= unforgivingly) → con rencor, rencorosamente
vindictively
adv say, behave → gemein
vindictively [vɪnˈdɪktɪvlɪ] adv → vendicativamente
vindictively [vɪnˈdɪktɪvlɪ] adv → vendicativamente


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And clear across to the Atlantic, the Junta in touch with them all and all of them needing guns, mere adventurers, soldiers of fortune, bandits, disgruntled American union men, socialists, anarchists, rough-necks, Mexican exiles, peons escaped from bondage, whipped miners from the bull-pens of Coeur d'Alene and Colorado who desired only the more vindictively to fight--all the flotsam and jetsam of wild spirits from the madly complicated modern world.
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She always looked at him very vindictively, and then vanished.
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