How to Use vindictive in a Sentence

vindictive

adjective

• For a moment, Min felt a vindictive joy that the girls already knew to keep the truth about him from the world.
  — Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
• The vindictive fever churning inside the Russian leader came to a head on the eve of the war in Ukraine.
  — Roger Cohen Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2023
• That was vindictive, Smith then argued, in a bid to get all the charges dismissed.
  — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 3 May 2020
• Mr Ramaphosa should not be vindictive and, mindful of the precedent, he should be seen to be fair.
  — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
• Not a word in print or on the air has shown this family to be a vindictive people.
  — Mercury News Readers, The Mercury News, 12 June 2017
• And a vindictive spirit might have something to do with it.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 16 Mar. 2024
• Even by the dismal standards of the trade, Bangladesh’s politicians are a brutal, vindictive bunch.
  — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
• Vardy was pregnant at the time of the post and has received unimaginably vindictive threats to both her and her baby’s life.
  — Raven Smith, Vogue, 12 May 2022
• There is a side of de Gaulle that is merely hateful: vindictive and vain and deeply selfish.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
• Don't send your photo to someone who may be vindictive or may want to seek revenge on you in the future.
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 22 Aug. 2019
• Is this the sort of vindictive trouble that Enrico feared?
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2022
• Yet Herman can’t help but feel for his clients, even at their most vindictive moments.
  — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Oct. 2022
• Mac and Charlie’s game pieces being smashed to ruins by the game’s crazed, vindictive winners.
  — Rachel Simon, Vulture, 30 Nov. 2021
• Your mother must be proud to have raised such a small, petty, vindictive person.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 11 May 2018
• There are many who have said it, in vindictive responses and Twitter threads.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2022
• Even so, the player himself doesn't believe fans were setting out to be vindictive.
  — Amanda Davies, CNN, 5 July 2017
• The strength of our moralizing instinct is shown in the vindictive nature of our assessments of right and wrong in sports.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
• The relentlessly vindictive Left should allow this man to do his job.
  — Deroy Murdock, National Review, 17 Apr. 2020
• Marcus was fired by a vindictive board even though the Handy Dan division was not in bankruptcy.
  — Harvey MacKay, Star Tribune, 2 Aug. 2020
• Often, the sources might face a threat to their career or even their safety, whether from a vindictive boss or a hostile government.
  — New York Times, 10 May 2022
• Instead of the strong reformer, the world now saw a vindictive ruler whose actions exuded paranoia.
  — Bloomberg.com, 18 May 2018
• But a vindictive rival schemed against him, and he was dismissed from the army during a 1763 peacetime downsizing.
  — Erick Trickey, Smithsonian, 26 Apr. 2017
• But an attorney for Unsworth portrayed Musk as vain and vindictive.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 3 Dec. 2019
• But a vindictive rival schemed against him, and he was dismissed from the army during a 1763 peacetime downsizing.
  — Erick Trickey, Smithsonian, 26 Apr. 2017
• For the vindictive members of TaJinYo, Tablo was an 엄친아 who needed to be revealed as an opportunistic liar.
  — Jae-Ha Kim, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2023
• In fact, even more than Holmes’s, Balwani’s behavior ranged from petty to straight-up vindictive.
  — Kevin Nguyen, GQ, 21 May 2018
• The presidents of the remaining CAA institutions have a choice not to be vindictive jerks.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2021
• Plus, deliberately poking the bear and not leaving on good terms can cause the firm left behind to be vindictive.
  — Mindy Diamond, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• The pre-war state-system emerged from the great conflict far more shattered than was apparent in the mood of vindictive triumph embodied in the Peace of Versailles. . . .
  — Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2011
• Red is the anti-princess living in Wonderland under her mother’s cold and vindictive reign.
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 9 July 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024