Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - vindictive
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Vindictive
vindictive
If you say that someone is vindictive, you are critical of them because they deliberately try to upset or cause trouble for someone who they think has done them harm. ...a vindictive woman desperate for revenge against the man who loved and left her. ADJ c darkgreen]disapproval • vindictiveness ...a dishonest person who is operating completely out of vindictiveness. N-UNCOUNT
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adjective Etymology: Latin vindicta revenge, vindication, from vindicare Date: 15th century 1. a. disposed to seek revenge ; vengeful b. intended for or involving revenge 2. intended to cause anguish or hurt ; spiteful • ~ly adverb • ~ness noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. 1 tending to seek revenge. 2 spiteful. Phrases and idioms vindictive damages Law damages exceeding simple compensation and awarded to punish the defendant. Derivatives vindictively adv. vindictiveness n. Etymology: L vindicta vengeance (as VINDICATE) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. мстительный 2. редк. карательный; карающий vindictive punishment —- возмездие vindictive deities —- боги-мстители 3. злопамятный ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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damages leg. штраф VINDICTIVE adj. 1) мстительный 2) rare карательный - vindictive damages Syn: malevolent, malicious, mean, rancorous, resentful, spiteful, splenetic, venomous Ant: benevolent, friendly, generous, genial, gracious, humane, kind, well-meaning ...Англо-русский словарь
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~ adj deliberately cruel and unfair, especially to someone who has harmed you (After the divorce Joan's ex-husband became increasingly vindictive.) - vindictively adv ("That'll teach her," he thought vindictively.) - vindictiveness n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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