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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vindictiveness
Noun
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Many were subjected to many forms of hatred spawned from these misunderstandings.—
Meredith Kile,
People.com,
21 July 2025 -
Despite his extensive progressive bona fides, Wertham’s hatred of the comics medium has forever branded him a right-wing zealot in the minds of comic fans.—
Vasilis K. Pozios,
HollywoodReporter,
18 July 2025
Noun
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Despite that virulence, some forms of plague did ultimately die out.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
29 May 2025
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While VUMs require more testing to establish their true risks to public health, VOIs are explicitly confirmed to have genetic changes that affect virus characteristics like transmissibility and virulence.—
Jack Knudson,
Discover Magazine,
9 June 2025
Noun
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Duncan doesn’t have any regrets about her comments despite the vitriol on social media.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
25 July 2025
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Despite some users’ unlikely vitriol for the anthropomorphic paper clip, much more malicious bots became obvious to users in the years to come on social media, especially on Twitter in the chaotic election season of 2016.—
Ashley Lutz,
Fortune,
22 July 2025
Noun
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McCullers has a real virtuosity for depicting alienation and giving people secret yearnings and personal histories.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
16 July 2025
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All of these factors and their contribution to alienation can foster authoritarian beliefs and individualism.—
Nathan Meyers,
The Conversation,
11 July 2025
Noun
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The medieval ideal suggests superstition, ignorance, vulgarity, restlessness, cruelty and religion—all of which fill my soul with horror and loathing.—
Henry Wiencek
July 22,
Literary Hub,
22 July 2025
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He’s not emasculated, there’s no affair on the side, there’s no secret loathing, there’s no immature handling of arguments or true failures of communication with dire consequences.—
Alex Ross,
People.com,
19 July 2025
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“Vindictiveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vindictiveness. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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