vindictiveness
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"There is a sort of public vindictiveness directed against them," one of the three lawyers, Yaël Hayat, said.
From BBC • Jan. 19, 2026
However, it would help prevent petty vindictiveness from ruling when lives are at stake.
From Salon • Dec. 30, 2025
“It is not prosecutorial vindictiveness to continue a case after a deal has been rejected,” McCrae writes.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 28, 2023
Your mother-in-law is gone, so don’t let her vindictiveness poison your husband and his brother’s relationship from beyond the grave.
From Slate • Oct. 31, 2022
This vindictiveness was urged on by men in high places who resented the President’s spirit of clemency as violently as they resented the tenacity of the South.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
Vocabulary lists containing vindictiveness
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