vindictive
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The doctor of the diaries comes across as all too human—stubborn, biased, vain and vindictive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
By late May, a judge declared the indictment a bad-faith effort that reeked of vindictive prosecution and dismissed it.
From Slate ● Jul. 9, 2026
And there’s the leering, preening Rupert Mannion from “Ted Lasso” — multimillionaire soccer team owner, inveterate philanderer and incurably vindictive divorcé.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026
"I'd like a more modern right with free-market values, but represented by someone who is not so vindictive and wants to work for Peru," he says.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew too well.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
Vocabulary lists containing vindictive
The Crucible
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You Can Say That Again: Dic and Dict
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Grade 9, List 4
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