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
Toledo had been for some time the retreat of two ambitious, turbulent and vindicative intriguers, the Queen Dowager and Cardinal Porto Carrero.
From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
He is passionately kind and angry; careless either to gain or keep; vindicative, but, if he be well answered, at himself.
From Shakspere and Montaigne by Jacob Feis
These several penalties were by their nature vindicative.
From The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church by Bertrand L. (Bertrand Louis) Conway
He, Elim, felt like hickory, like iron; his mind was clear, vindicative.
From The Happy End by Joseph Hergesheimer
