The statement sounded more harsh and vindictive than he'd meant it to.

One moment their charges against the pharmaceutical giant would seem as irrefutable as they were terrifying, and the next, the same allegations were made to sound vindictive, capricious, and unsubstantiated.

I don't want to sound grim or vindictive,' Hawkins said, 'because I'm not.

On the other hand, if you are still in love, you are apt to think, as most of us do, that people say things they don't mean when they are angry and can sound vindictive and mean.

You sound very vindictive, Mikah, you old fraud.

Aunt Hilda said, in sober surprise, "Why, Zebbie, you almost sound vindictive."

I don't want to sound vindictive, but I wouldn't like him to be roaming around the house in his state.

He did not sound vindictive.

They had gotten out with that story fast enough, honest enough, and strong enough so that whatever the North Koreans said about Major Lee's plot would sound ungracious and vindictive.

"If this sounds vindictive, as it is, you have interpreted it correctly."