vindictiveness
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This was raw vindictiveness, since we doubt Iran has given up on killing them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
"There is a sort of public vindictiveness directed against them," one of the three lawyers, Yaël Hayat, said.
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2026
When circumstances create a realistic likelihood of vindictiveness, the burden shifts to the government to justify its conduct.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2025
“It is not prosecutorial vindictiveness to continue a case after a deal has been rejected,” McCrae writes.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2023
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
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