vindictiveness

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Noun
  • He’s been terrified, in love, hit in the head and, most often, in a state of bitter hatred.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 7 Feb. 2025
  • There was a conscious decision made not to blow up the church, because that's so symbolic of hatred, and that was a sacred building for the entire Walnut Grove community on the show and off the show.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 6 Feb. 2025
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
Noun
  • But more interesting is how Kincaid precisely depicts the feeling of living with the vitriol of a man who has not yet given himself permission to leave you.
    Haley Mlotek, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The digital vitriol is so threatening that 34 percent of Jews who reported feeling physically threatened by antisemitism online have considered leaving the U.S. in the last year.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Morrison’s novel tells the story of Pecola Breedlove, a Black girl in Lorain, Ohio, after the Great Depression, who suffers abuse and alienation culminating in a delusion that she’s been granted the blue eyes she’s always dreamed of.
    Kristen Martin, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2025
  • There’s an overall sense of alienation imparted by the further fragmentation of the storylines, along with the introduction of subplots, particularly in Wei’s portion (he’s got a male friend in need of a large sum of money and is seeing a woman who has a young daughter).
    Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The statues of Assad and the posters of his face that adorned every public building lie on the ground, toppled, torn, spat and stomped upon, finally susceptible to his citizens’ loathing and contempt.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Scarlett Johansson is loathing after her daughter went to see Wicked without her.
    Emma Aerin Becker, People.com, 26 Nov. 2024
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“Vindictiveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vindictiveness. Accessed 19 Feb. 2025.

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