How to Use vindictive in a Sentence

vindictive

adjective

• 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
• 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
• That was vindictive, Smith then argued, in a bid to get all the charges dismissed.
  — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 3 May 2020
• 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
• Mr Ramaphosa should not be vindictive and, mindful of the precedent, he should be seen to be fair.
  — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
• 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
• 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
• Is this the sort of vindictive trouble that Enrico feared?
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2022
• Your mother must be proud to have raised such a small, petty, vindictive person.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 11 May 2018
• 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
• Even so, the player himself doesn't believe fans were setting out to be vindictive.
  — Amanda Davies, CNN, 5 July 2017
• Even by the dismal standards of the trade, Bangladesh’s politicians are a brutal, vindictive bunch.
  — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
• There are many who have said it, in vindictive responses and Twitter threads.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2022
• Instead of the strong reformer, the world now saw a vindictive ruler whose actions exuded paranoia.
  — Bloomberg.com, 18 May 2018
• Yet Herman can’t help but feel for his clients, even at their most vindictive moments.
  — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Oct. 2022
• The relentlessly vindictive Left should allow this man to do his job.
  — Deroy Murdock, National Review, 17 Apr. 2020
• As soon as one vindictive account was shuttered, another sprung up in its place.
  — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 12 Mar. 2015
• The two vindictive puppet masters finally are going to go face-to-face.
  — Zane Moses, baltimoresun.com, 19 May 2017
• 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
• 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
• Mac and Charlie’s game pieces being smashed to ruins by the game’s crazed, vindictive winners.
  — Rachel Simon, Vulture, 30 Nov. 2021
• The gods took no interest in humans and were neither vindictive nor demanding.
  — The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
• How else to explain what looks more like a clownish and vindictive political stunt than a corruption probe?
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2022
• But an attorney for Unsworth portrayed Musk as vain and vindictive.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 3 Dec. 2019
• Marcus was fired by a vindictive board even though the Handy Dan division was not in bankruptcy.
  — Harvey MacKay, Star Tribune, 2 Aug. 2020
• If a woman reports her ex for stealing from her, who’s to say she’s not just brokenhearted and vindictive?
  — Rachel Monroe, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2018
• Newman said the refusal to let Lindecrantz testify on her own terms shows that the court is being vindictive.
  — Tracy Connor, NBC News, 9 Mar. 2018
• Each was a passionate, sometimes vindictive mix of beliefs that changed with circumstances.
  — Martin Peretz, WSJ, 8 May 2018
• Pelosi, for her part, realized the electoral harm that had been wrought by a rabid, vindictive coterie of progressives in her party.
  — John Hirschauer, National Review, 30 Sep. 2019
• With her scorned, vindictive suitor intent on taking her father's throne, the princess must protect her family and save the kingdom.
  — Travis Bean, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 30 Apr 2024