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vindictive

adj
/vɪnˈdɪk.tɪv/UK

Etymology

From Latin vindicta (“vengeance”) + -ive. Contrast Latin vindicātīvus.

  1. derived from vindicta

Definitions

  1. Having a tendency to seek revenge when wronged, vengeful.

    • The vindictive mockery in her voice made his brain quiver.
    • The victors will exact vindictive penalties and the losers of course will undertake to pay, but none of them realizes that money is going to do the most extraordinary things to them when they begin upon that.

  2. Punitive.

The neighborhood

Derived

vindictively, vindictiveness, vindictive protectiveness

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA