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Recent Examples of vindictiveness
The line between law enforcement and partisan vindictiveness can also become muddied.
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Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
When circumstances create a realistic likelihood of vindictiveness, the burden shifts to the government to justify its conduct.
—Cassandra Burke Robertson, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2025
Johnson says Comey may be able to argue that he is being prosecuted out of vindictiveness, given the president's remarks.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 26 Sep. 2025
So there’s a feeling of vindictiveness and petulance that’s in there, but there’s also a practicality to it, too.
—Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 21 Sep. 2025
Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
When circumstances create a realistic likelihood of vindictiveness, the burden shifts to the government to justify its conduct.
—Cassandra Burke Robertson, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2025
Johnson says Comey may be able to argue that he is being prosecuted out of vindictiveness, given the president's remarks.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 26 Sep. 2025
So there’s a feeling of vindictiveness and petulance that’s in there, but there’s also a practicality to it, too.
—Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 21 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vindictiveness
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In Australia, a wide-ranging inquiry commission examining antisemitism after a massacre at a Hanukkah celebration heard this week from Jews who said escalating hatred has left them fearful and vulnerable.—
David Crary,
Fortune,
6 May 2026
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They were convicted of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred and sentenced to two years in prison.—
Brian Boucher,
ARTnews.com,
6 May 2026
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To predict how an outbreak will progress, epidemiologists often use stock-and-flow diagrams: illustrations featuring stocks of people (susceptible, infected, recovered, dead) and arrows showing flows between them based on factors such as exposure or virulence.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
4 Mar. 2026
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Genes involved in adaptation, such as those linked to virulence, metabolism or host interaction, also move with them.—
Lily Peck,
The Conversation,
17 Feb. 2026
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It was filled with snark, disgust, vitriol and probably some truth.—
Armando Salguero OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
11 May 2026
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Maybe the biggest recipient of vitriol is an 18-year-old named Slayr, whose real last name, thanks to cosmic fate, is McDonald.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
8 May 2026
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Like the albums themselves, the experience constantly oscillates between dread and beauty, alienation and intimacy.—
Jonathan Cohen,
SPIN,
12 May 2026
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Sartre viewed antisemitism as a solution for the fundamental human problems of anxiety and alienation.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
8 May 2026
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In Village People’s gay-empowerment lexicon this means joining a gay community, for true abolition from the slavery of societal/self-loathing cannot be achieved on one’s own.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
11 May 2026
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What Natalie does seem driven by—more than faith, more than redirected ambition—is her instinctual loathing of other women.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
11 May 2026
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Showing the disaffection for politics and partisanship in this modern era, each of the last five midterm elections have seen presidents with ratings below 50%.—
Domenico Montanaro,
NPR,
9 May 2026
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Our hypothetical ambitious fifteen-year-old is exceptional, of course, and certainly not the bellwether for today’s disaffection about higher education.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
5 May 2026
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“Vindictiveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vindictiveness. Accessed 13 May. 2026.
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