Legal Definition and Related Resources of Vindictive

Motivated by a sense of revenge, retaliation, punishment. See Tuel v Gladden, 379 P.2d. 553, 234 Or. I.

adjective

• angry
• avenging
• grudgeful
• implacable
• inclined to vengeance
• malevolent
• malicious
• malignant
• punitive
• punitory
• rancorous
• resentful
• retaliative
• retaliatory
• retributive
• revengeful
• spiteful
• ulciscendi cupidus
• unforgiving
• unrelenting
• vengeful
• vindicatory

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