vindictiveness

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Speaking to BBC South East on Friday, Paul Hollywood said: "The vindictiveness from the locals towards the family who have been here 18 years is unforgivable."

From BBC • Aug. 16, 2024

Miss Havisham is the epitome of gothic tragedy, representing lost love, bitterness, and vindictiveness, a complicated brew brought to life by an array of formidable actors including Anne Bancroft, Gillian Anderson, and Helena Bonham Carter.

From Salon • Mar. 27, 2023

Your mother-in-law is gone, so don’t let her vindictiveness poison your husband and his brother’s relationship from beyond the grave.

From Slate • Oct. 31, 2022

But that vindictiveness seems to retreat — or is it deepening? — when Peter returns from school to visit his mother and, against all odds, begins to forge an odd kinship with his former tormenter.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2021

But they did hold on, and as the war trailed drearily on, vindictiveness toward the stubborn stand of the seceding states grew steadily more bitter in the North.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt