vindictive , also: vindicative old use

Of course, she did not have to be quite so vindictive.

"You are the most vindictive female I ever heard of."

But then he would think better of these vindictive measures.

A vindictive mother can move the children to another state with no protection for the children's right to see their father.

I will not take pleasure from a vindictive, personal point of view.

To many people, the move seemed a vindictive attack on friends and former employees.

I fear for the future of our schools with such a vindictive man in charge.

But for now, in her victory, it made no sense to be vindictive.

Far from being softened he was more vindictive than ever.

I'd be killing you because I am just that vindictive.

But I won't live my life in a vindictive way.

If something works, I don't think you need to become vindictive.

I shouldn't have thought you were a vindictive sort of girl.

The vindictive wife of the man she was supposed to be planning to run off with.

"Feeling a little vindictive over the loss of your videotape?"

"Other than to be vindictive, what reason do they have for doing this?

She has been described as vindictive and the girl "you love to hate".

She didn't seem like the vindictive type, but then, how well did he really know her?

"To find something to report," Sam said with a vindictive smile.

Choking, he came back to the surface with a vindictive look on his face.

But in stopping its happening, we're going to look very small and vindictive.

Had they been less vindictive in 1918, it may not have happened.' "

The lawsuit, she said, seemed to be the work of "somebody being vindictive."

It's all true, what they say, she told him with vindictive relish.