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vindictiveness

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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
Noun1.vindictivenessvindictiveness - a malevolent desire for revenge      
vengefulness
malevolence, malignity - wishing evil to others
Translations
vindictiveness [vɪnˈdɪktɪvnɪs] N (= desire for revenge) → afán m de venganza, revanchismo m; (= spitefulness) → rencor m
vindictiveness [vɪnˈdɪktɪvnɪs] n
out of vindictiveness → par rancune
vindictiveness
n → Rachsucht f; (of mood) → Unversöhnlichkeit f; the vindictiveness of his speech → seine rachsüchtige Rede


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Wakem was not without this parenthetic vindictiveness toward the uncomplimentary miller; and now Mrs.
The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context
It would be refining too much, perhaps, even considering his monomania, to hint that his vindictiveness towards the White Whale might have possibly extended itself in some degree to all sperm whales, and that the more monsters he slew by so much the more he multiplied the chances that each subsequently encountered whale would prove to be the hated one he hunted.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
True he had flung Hook's arm to the crocodile, but even this and the increased insecurity of life to which it led, owing to the crocodile's pertinacity [persistance], hardly account for a vindictiveness so relentless and malignant.
The Adventures of Peter Pan by Barrie, James Matthew View in context
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