vindictively


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vin·dic·tive

 (vĭn-dĭk′tĭv)
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·dic′tive·ly adv.
vin·dic′tive·ness n.
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Adv.1.vindictively - in a vindictive, revengeful mannervindictively - in a vindictive, revengeful manner; "he plotted vindictively against his former superiors"
revengefully, vengefully
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vindictively

[vɪnˈdɪktɪvlɪ] ADV (= vengefully) → vengativamente, con afán de venganza; (= unforgivingly) → con rencor, rencorosamente
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vindictively

adv say, behave → gemein
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vindictively

[vɪnˈdɪktɪvlɪ] adv → vendicativamente
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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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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The counsel were eloquent, argumentative, and vindictively abusive of each other, as was characteristic and proper.
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`you, who pursue crime so vindictively, answer now, why are there unpunished crimes in your dwelling?'" The baroness became pale.
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The older males either ignored him entirely or else hated him so vindictively that but for his wondrous agility and speed and the fierce protection of the huge Kala he would have been dispatched at an early age.
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