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
He, Elim, felt like hickory, like iron; his mind was clear, vindicative.
From The Happy End by Joseph Hergesheimer
And were I troublesome or vindicative, I could make some of them examples, but I freely remit the slanders in this kind that are past.
From A Short View of the Frauds and Abuses Committed by Apothecaries As well in Relation to Patients, as Physicians: And Of the only Remedy thereof by Physicians making their own Medicines. by Christopher Merrett
He was not a vindicative youth, nor, for that matter, was Ned.
From Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight; or, on the border for Uncle Sam by Victor [pseud.] Appleton