vindictiveness
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This was raw vindictiveness, since we doubt Iran has given up on killing them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
"There is a sort of public vindictiveness directed against them," one of the three lawyers, Yaël Hayat, said.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2026
He extensively quotes both men's social media posts to "get a full sense of the madness," arguing they're both being consumed by their tendencies "to grandiosity, vindictiveness and paranoia."
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2025
“It is not prosecutorial vindictiveness to continue a case after a deal has been rejected,” McCrae writes.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2023
This vindictiveness was urged on by men in high places who resented the President’s spirit of clemency as violently as they resented the tenacity of the South.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
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