retaliative

Example Sentences

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It is due to Carlile to observe that the annoyance he marshalled against authority was chiefly retaliative.

From Life and Character of Richard Carlile by Holyoake, George Jacob

Some of the retaliative measures employed were the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, the abridgment of the freedom of the press and the prohibition of elections.

From Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America by Burke, Edmund

You would hear every by-end of retaliative and sniggered-over mythology, and in your present state of mind you would believe all of them.

From The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations by Cabell, James Branch

Moreover, could the authorities responsible for the peace of the border allow so flagrant an act of dacoity to pass without retaliative measures?

From The Heath Hover Mystery by Mitford, Bertram

Rancour and rage and vindictiveness, and every passion awakened in the breasts of the strong by local insolence and legal injustice, is supplied by Bunyan with epithets of immense retaliative force.

From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Davies, Charles Maurice