How to Use vindictive in a Sentence

vindictive

adjective

• Not in a vindictive way at all, but just in a sense of, like, fuel to my fire.
  — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2024
• Who is not petty or vindictive.
  — Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2026
• 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
• Your mother must be proud to have raised such a small, petty, vindictive person.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 11 May 2018
• That was vindictive, Smith then argued, in a bid to get all the charges dismissed.
  — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 3 May 2020
• Yet Herman can’t help but feel for his clients, even at their most vindictive moments.
  — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Oct. 2022
• 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.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 7 Apr. 2023
• 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
• As soon as one vindictive account was shuttered, another sprung up in its place.
  — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 12 Mar. 2015
• Even so, the player himself doesn't believe fans were setting out to be vindictive.
  — Amanda Davies, CNN, 5 July 2017
• There are many who have said it, in vindictive responses and Twitter threads.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2022
• Comey, through his lawyers, has highlighted many of those events in arguing that the case is vindictive.
  — Aysha Bagchi, USA Today, 19 Nov. 2025
• From here on, the story grows oddly vindictive and less appealing.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
• Pelosi is mean-spirited and vindictive.
  — Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald, 8 Nov. 2025
• 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
• Their beliefs are not vindictive; they are considered.
  — Chris McKenna, New York Times, 4 May 2026
• Heathcliff is surly, cruel, and vindictive.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Refinery29, 12 Feb. 2026
• The two vindictive puppet masters finally are going to go face-to-face.
  — Zane Moses, baltimoresun.com, 19 May 2017
• The relentlessly vindictive Left should allow this man to do his job.
  — Deroy Murdock, National Review, 17 Apr. 2020
• Trump rules America like a petty, vindictive crime boss.
  — Jonathan Easley, The Hill, 23 July 2025
• But an attorney for Unsworth portrayed Musk as vain and vindictive.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 3 Dec. 2019
• Even by the dismal standards of the trade, Bangladesh’s politicians are a brutal, vindictive bunch.
  — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
• In other words, Cartman is irate that Trump has stolen his hateful, vindictive shtick.
  — Nick Marx, The Conversation, 11 Sep. 2025
• Her reasons for taking the throne have become more personal, more vindictive.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
• Instead of the strong reformer, the world now saw a vindictive ruler whose actions exuded paranoia.
  — Bloomberg.com, 18 May 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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 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