vindictively

ADVERB

revengefully

Synonyms

STRONG

vengefully

WEAK

brutally cruelly maliciously resentfully ruthlessly spitefully venomously

Example Sentences

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Vindictively Lowe restricted Napoleon to a shadeless plain for horseback riding, and forbade him to enter his own garden after dusk.

From Time Magazine Archive

Vindictively, in the hot basement room, he piled maledictions on Murray.

From Time Magazine Archive

Vindictively champing the end of a cedar penholder, he groped for expression: "Stygian ... sickening ... surfeiting ... slovenly ... sour...."

From The Day of Days An Extravaganza by Brown, Arthur William