Vindictive

I realize that the word vindictive is a little strong for his comment to David, but there does seem to be some rancor coming from something. ❋ David (2005)

Lying will not get you in the WH; to be vindictive is non-Christian. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And then the constant problem: how informed, smart, generous, dumb, ignorant or vindictive is the population, and what timeline do they consider — this year, or this century? bob h says: ❋ Unknown (2010)

More than forty years of strife and struggle with the whisper that, by whatever name she called her vindictive pride and rage, nothing through all eternity could change their nature. ❋ Unknown (2007)

So I called her vindictive, and then she just laughed at me. ❋ Hamletwildie (2006)

He painted in strong terms the incapacity, and what he called the vindictive and treacherous disposition, of the king; and declared, that to liberate him from the confinement under which he was now placed, would be to expose to certain death, a princess, who, by her wisdom and courage, had been the salvation of the state. ❋ Giles Gossip (N/A)

If her campaign was going to leak something like this, they’d do it anonymously, since this just makes her look vindictive, and making Hillary look vindictive is what Fox does, not what her campaign does. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Rather then calling Sarah's book "setting the record straight", the media call it vindictive. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Again, she lied with good reason: to avoid being identified as a vindictive political power player who used the F.B.I. to ruin the lives of people standing in the way of juicy patronage. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He had told Daryl himself with what some might call vindictive relish. ❋ Ann Rule (2000)

"Is she what you'd call a vindictive woman?" inquired the other. ❋ Unknown (1903)

But the union said the sticking point to a deal was the restoration of travel perks taken away from staff who went on strike in March, action which Unite described as vindictive and petty. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The State doesn't forget; and the State can be very vindictive, which is why Google's nascent China Doctrine or a threatened pull-out because of cyber attacks … ❋ Unknown (2010)

The story I'd been hearing for some time has finally emerged in the mainstream media: namely that Hillary Clinton, her husband, Bill, and many of her major financial supporters, known as "bundlers" are so livid at what they see as underhanded -- I've even heard it called "vindictive" -- play by the Obama team, that it's been suggested the Clintons intend to eviscerate what ought to be Obama's coronation at the Democratic Party Convention in Denver next week. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Former John F. Kennedy adviser Theodore Sorenson called an early version of the script "vindictive" and "malicious" in a front-page New York Times story last February. ❋ Unknown (2011)