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Example sentences for "vindictive"

Lexicographically close words:
vindications; vindicator; vindicators; vindice; vindicta; vindictively; vindictiveness; vindrent; vine; vinedresser
  1. When the red slipper rattles round your pate, Vindictive of the mad attempt to foil Her potent spell, and all-involving toil.

  2. But the Church’s form was too temperate for the vindictive spirit of Charles II.

  3. But the editor made it the vehicle of his tyrannical and vindictive spirit; and the purse and person of the proprietor--it might almost be said the peace of society, were endangered by so formidable a weapon remaining in such hands.

  4. The frail old body quivered with the vindictive force of his answer.

  5. By the almost vindictive expression on Stephen's face she saw, however, that her failure had decided him to resume command of the situation.

  6. Then came an overwhelming stream of persons, all of whom had received some severe and well-remembered injury at the hands of the malicious and vindictive Mandarin.

  7. Is, then, this blow also by the hand of that malicious and vindictive person?

  8. That being so, it follows I have the hot, vindictive temperament of a Southern race in addition to a fair share of British tenacity of purpose.

  9. For years he and his had unconsciously been the objects of a devilish, vindictive plot.

  10. As he thus stood, his back to the wall, that expression of deadly vindictive hatred returned to his face.

  11. But the violent tongue of his stepmother, coupled with his father's sensitive horror of the same, was destined to work such woe in poor Philip's eventual fate as even that vindictive matron little dreamed.

  12. Here caution was not necessary, and there were divers fierce hand-to-hand attacks on clumps of scrub representing a vindictive and merciless police, out of which Moonlighter and his men issued crowned with victory and covered with glory.

  13. Harry contrived to look quite vindictive and gave no answer, and a minute later Chris returned.

  14. He knew his mother to be incapable of a cruel or vindictive action.

  15. Napoleon, in his own vindictive jealousy, unwittingly brought to the head of the Prussian Government the ablest and most patriotic statesman of the Continent.

  16. No, I blame those wicked and vindictive scandal-mongers, whose age is their only protection, and those intriguing men who beset my daughters' ears.

  17. This proof of the king's regard for me did much mischief, no doubt, as it furnished my enemies with a pretext to accuse me of a vindictive spirit.

  18. This was my one thought, as the above-named gentlemen can bear me witness, when a new turn was given to affairs by a fresh act of Signor Gratarol's imprudence and vindictive rancour.

  19. For upwards of an hour he thundered and declaimed like an infuriate Demosthenes against what he chose to call my "vindictive comedy.

  20. Eve fell asleep, with the vindictive and conspiring murmur of their voices in her ears.

  21. She only knew that she felt contaminated, that she loathed these wretched, greasy creatures with an almost vindictive loathing.

  22. For my part I began to support the looks of Lebel with more assurance.

  23. Once known, he could not fail of being valued and esteemed, and the king entertained the most lively regard for him.

  24. Not when pride or vindictive feelings obtain the mastery," replied she.

  25. Nobody was sorry when Mr. Page ordered him to leave the room, which he did with a last vindictive "Much!

  26. She buttoned her boots with a vindictive air.

  27. He saw the likeness, and remembers the meeting," muttered Mrs. Mynors, crumpling up her handkerchief into a tight ball with vindictive fingers.

  28. His vindictive malice even had its ridiculous side.

  29. Allow me to make such amends as I can and call you what you most surely are--the most generous and least vindictive of men.

  30. The Singhalese also have a kind of Lilith or Lamia whom they call Bodrima, though she is not so much dreaded for the sake of children as for her vindictive feelings towards men.

  31. They are often said to have been sunk by some final vindictive stroke of a magician or witch resolved to destroy the city no longer trusting them.

  32. The leading wizards and witches were probably also persons who had been known in connection with the popular discontent and revolutionary feeling displayed in so many of the vindictive conjurations which were brought to light.

  33. Mythologically, too, this Rahu has been divided; for we shall hereafter trace the dragon-tail of him to the garden of Eden and in the christian devil, whereas in India he has been improved from a vindictive to a merely voracious demon.

  34. General Grant never afterward communicated to me on the subject at all; and I inferred that Mr. Stanton, who was notoriously vindictive in his prejudices, would not consent to the employment of these high officers.

  35. Now, I know the vindictive nature of our enemy, that we may have many years of military operations from this quarter; and, therefore, deem it wise and prudent to prepare in time.

  36. I at least resolved that I would so compromise you that no one else would ever marry you," was the malicious retort, as the woman turned her vindictive glance from her to Ray.

  37. Brought into collision with the sanguinary and revengeful; and his own conduct will eventually be distinguished, by bloody and vindictive deeds.

  38. They gave birth to a vindictive feeling in many, which led to the perpetration of similar enormities and sunk civilized man, to the degraded level of the barbarian.

  39. Although the Physician might secretly have wished for a fairer and less vindictive world, he could but observe that well had the gods fated Rababull to be Master.

  40. For Sorpiala's lips were quick to smile, although her almond-shaped eyes had always betrayed an hardness, and Sorpiala could be unrelentingly vindictive about her jealousies, which were countless.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vindictive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    grim; implacable; irreconcilable; punitive; rancorous; resentful; retaliatory; spiteful; unappeasable; vicious