vindictiveness

noun

Definition of vindictivenessnext
as in hatred

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  1. hatred
  2. virulence
  3. vitriol
  4. alienation
  5. loathing
Noun
  • All of the hatred and violence of their relationship all culminated in this moment.
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2024
  • But this act also gave people permission to go far enough—to acknowledge their righteous hatred of our depraved health-care system, and even to conjure something funny or silly or joyous out of that hate.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of hatred
Noun
  • Everything about the movement surprised political observers: its virulence, its magnitude, its provincial origins, its apparent lack of structure and leadership, and its adamant refusal to be co-opted by existing political parties and unions.
    Arthur Goldhammer, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2018
  • An ePPP is a pathogen that has been modified to enhance its transmissibility and virulence.
    Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
Definition of virulence
Noun
  • The online vitriol that has been unleashed against the health insurance industry in the past two weeks has unmasked a profound level of despair, powerlessness and anger experienced by millions of Americans who feel betrayed by our healthcare system.
    Renee Hsia, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Sweeney is, of course, far closer to the culture-at-large’s Platonic ideal of symmetrical blonde womanhood than many, and she is doubtless spared much of the vitriol that other women in the public eye (most women in the TikTok age, really) aren’t.
    Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2024
Definition of vitriol
Noun
  • Advertisement Both films also feature world-famous actors trying to disappear into beloved characters who have become so woven into the popular consciousness that any variation risks alienation.
    Valli Herman, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The movie would work if it weren’t set at Christmas, but the holiday cheer ratchets up the sense of alienation and despair.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of alienation
Noun
  • The support and affection for him that predominates online—its photo negative is the fear and loathing directed at our health-care system—appears to extend to the jail where he is being held.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Admittedly, many of his judgments did not hold up: Mencken had many of the racial prejudices of his time, and his loathing for Franklin D. Roosevelt has not exactly been vindicated by history.
    Ben Jacobs, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of loathing
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