Definitions for vindictive

vindictive vin·dic·tive

Spelling: [vin-dik-tiv]
IPA: /vɪnˈdɪk tɪv/

Vindictive is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 183 anagrams from letters in vindictive (cdeiiintvv).

Definitions for vindictive

adjective

  1. disposed or inclined to revenge; vengeful:
  2. proceeding from or showing a revengeful spirit:

Origin of vindictive

1610-20; Latin vindict(a) vengeance + -ive

Examples for vindictive

Such were the sops with which he sought to quench his vindictive rage.

He was no longer bitter and vindictive, as he had been in the days of his degradation.

If she was vengeful and vindictive, it was what the country had made her.

A lady developer was harassed by her vindictive ex-boyfriend.

The email feud between Joe Miller and Todd Palin reveals a problem for Sarah's political future: her vindictive streak.

And it's the devil's own labour I've had to prevail upon them not to be vindictive.

He cites Alexander Hamilton, who wrote that human beings are “ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.”

Ever had a petty and vindictive boss, competent only at deflecting blame for his own shortcomings?

Preening, arrogant, vindictive, and inexorable; awash with cash; corrupt; in bed with corporate America and big finance.

But that man Granger must have been a vindictive brute to carry it so far.

Word Value for vindictive
Scrable

19

Words with friends

23

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