vindicatory
adjective
tending or serving to vindicate.
vindicative
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a variation of
vindicatory.
Example Sentences
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She also said that it reinforced shareholders’ depiction of Dolan as a vindicative bully.
From Reuters ● Feb. 6, 2023
But in heaven, among the immortals, never was an unfortunate hero of the vindicative Muses so reduced into nothingness!
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
Let us put aside the curtain of vindicative fire, and see what this pain of loss is like; I say, what it is like, for it fortunately surpasses human imagination to conceive its dire reality.
From The Education of Catholic Girls by Janet Erskine Stuart
Bacon always claimed that he was not "vindicative."
From Bacon by John Morley
He, Elim, felt like hickory, like iron; his mind was clear, vindicative.
From The Happy End by Joseph Hergesheimer
