retaliative

Example Sentences

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It is due to Carlile to observe that the annoyance he marshalled against authority was chiefly retaliative.

From Life and Character of Richard Carlile by Holyoake, George Jacob

These would seem to take it for granted that we shall fall short of victory, and hence that selfish retaliative or vindictive practices between nations, sanctioned by imperialism, will continue to flourish after the war.

From An essay on the American contribution and the democratic idea by Churchill, Winston

Rancour and rage and vindictiveness, and every passion awakened in the breasts of the strong by local insolence and legal injustice, is supplied by Bunyan with epithets of immense retaliative force.

From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Davies, Charles Maurice

But still I did not feel that anything was to be gained by retaliative abuse; and the truth about him, out of charity, I hesitated to tell.

From My Attainment of the Pole by Cook, Frederick A.

You would hear every by-end of retaliative and sniggered-over mythology, and in your present state of mind you would believe all of them.

From The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations by Cabell, James Branch