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
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
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, Elim, felt like hickory, like iron; his mind was clear, vindicative.
From The Happy End by Joseph Hergesheimer
