Vindictive

Examples

• It is inconceivable that this fellow could have made two such vindictive enemies as these appear to be without knowing of it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• My mother is not vindictive, said Clym, his colour faintly rising. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• However well deserved this piece of retaliation might have been, it was as vindictive a one as could well have been resorted to. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The face of each child, as the amount of his contribution was mentioned, darkened in a peculiarly vindictive manner, but his was by far the worst. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It amazed me to think that one so divinely beautiful could at the same time be so fiendishly vindictive. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• My disposition is not so bad as you think: I am passionate, but not vindictive. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• At the sound of his blind, vindictive voice, the laughter suddenly left the girls, and their hearts contracted with contempt. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Well, my dear sir, knowing the vindictive character of his old associates, he was trying to hide his own identity from everybody as long as he could. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• He smiled pleasantly at me, and when he smiled his expression was kindly--anything but cruel or vindictive. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• He stopped, smiled darkly, and added, in a low, vindictive tone, 'It serves him right! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• This done, he went away, muttering, and uttered the cry of his trade next door, in a vindictive shriek. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• What were Mr. Winkle's feelings when, in doing so, he disclosed to view the face and figure of the vindictive and sanguinary Dowler! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• She was so quick, and so lambent, like discernible fire, and so vindictive, and so rich in her dangerous flamy sensitiveness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I, vindictive and implacable? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• A very deep, malicious, vindictive person is the gentleman who is now waiting us downstairs. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He had hurt her, he had been vindictive. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Reason is vindictive as a devil: for me she was always envenomed as a step-mother. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• His dark, handsome, aquiline features were convulsed into a spasm of vindictive hatred, which had set his dead face in a terribly fiendish expression. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He remained hard and vindictive. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Suddenly the Pussum appeared again in the door, her small, childish face looking sullen and vindictive. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The feeling began and ended in reckless, vindictive, hopeless hatred of the man who was to marry her. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I never saw you look so disagreeable, so unjust, so almost vindictive before. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Madame Fosco took a book from the table, sat down, and looked at me, with the steady vindictive malice of a woman who never forgot and never forgave. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

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