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vindictiveness

/vin-dik-tiv/US // vɪnˈdɪk tɪv //UK // (vɪnˈdɪktɪv) //

复仇心态,报复性,复仇心理,复仇

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : disposed or inclined to revenge; vengeful: a vindictive person.
    • : proceeding from or showing a revengeful spirit: vindictive rumors.

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Examples

  • If anyone challenges that, he gets very nasty and vindictive.

  • The features worked curiously, forming themselves for a second to a pattern of mean vindictiveness.

  • We have, however, a better opinion of human nature than to believe in such extreme vindictiveness.

  • Gloomy importance and cold vindictiveness distinguished them from the noisy rabble.

  • All the vindictiveness and rancor of a party press could not obliterate these traits, and character sufficed to put down calumny.

  • It was a face branded and stamped with so fierce a vindictiveness that she realized the hopelessness of argument.