vindictiveness
pronunciation
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- Noun:
- a malevolent desire for revenge
Word Origin
- vindictiveness (n.)
- 1670s, from vindictive + -ness.
Example
- 1. Whether intended or not , the sequencing conveys vindictiveness , some say .
- 2. But the prosecution of mr drake and others like him smacks more of vindictiveness and message-sending than justice .
- 3. As usual , it is the ordinary darfuris who will bear the burden of the government 's vindictiveness .
- 4. He said the manner of bennett 's arrest smacked of vindictiveness and was possibly a move by hawks in the zanu pf party to cause the unity government to fail .
- 5. " I am here because of the determination of one man , I am here because of the vindictiveness of one man , nicolas sarkozy , who is also president of the french republic , " mr de villepin declared as he arrived at the criminal court in central paris , flanked by his wife and children .