| 单词 | vindictive |
| 释义 | vin·dic·tive 1. a. (1) < a vindictive man will look for occasions of resentment — James Martineau > (2) < punishments … essentially vindictive in their nature — M.R.Cohen > b. < letters … with rather vindictive comments upon the people — Martha T. Stephenson > < a priggish and even vindictive poem — Cyril Connolly > 2. < a vindictive purpose, — a purpose to punish you for your suspicion — William Cowper > Synonyms: < his dark, handsome, aquiline features were convulsed into a spasm of vindictive hatred, which had set his dead face in a terribly fiendish expression — A. Conan Doyle > < the Muses are vindictive virgins, and avenge themselves without mercy on those who weary of their charms — L.P.Smith > revengeful and vengeful suggest truculent readiness to take vengeance on the part of one provoked < the sorrow through the villages spread by triumphant cruelties of vengeful military force and punishments without remorse — William Wordsworth > < to some vengeful people the treaty seemed too easy upon Germany; to many liberals it seemed too harsh — Allan Nevins & H.S.Commager > < revengeful Nature grudged him the crops which she granted to more liberal husbandmen — W.M.Thackeray > |
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