vindictiveness

She knew the power of her former master and his vindictiveness.

His supporters suggest dark political vindictiveness by the Bush administration.

"Any kind of vindictiveness or slight to the employees now would be the wrong thing to do."

The boy's eyes were hot, and his face sullen with hard vindictiveness.

Some of the coverage was motivated by vindictiveness, he says.

The vindictiveness, at least, has been undisguised from the start.

It was an act of judicial anger and vindictiveness to do so in the first place.

They would be fair and just, but not to the point of favoritism or vindictiveness.

What can you say when friends admit such hurt without vindictiveness or bitterness?

How can you address that reputation for vindictiveness and intolerance?

That can give rise to feelings of vindictiveness on your part."

All the vindictiveness that he had held for years came forth in one outburst.

"Many of my clients have never expressed any vindictiveness whatsoever," he said.

Therefore, the only real justification for putting inmates to death is vindictiveness.

Now all the vindictiveness in her was awake again.

Prison officials remain unmoved, but for reasons of security, not vindictiveness.

Many years later, Ivy would bear the brunt of his vindictiveness.

Dawn's words echoed in her ears, and for all their vindictiveness she knew they must be true.

Charles Napier went about his job with vindictiveness and spite.

Not with vindictiveness but a desperation to inspire more than kindness.

There was no Longer any vindictiveness at the prospect, nor even malice.

With a new start, he would take up crime with a spirit of vindictiveness.

Whatever faults she might imagine him to possess, vindictiveness did not seem to be one of them.

Is this political short-sightedness or pure vindictiveness? I, for one, do not know.

Her interest was a combination of vindictiveness and nostalgia.