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Recent Examples of vindictiveness
The line between law enforcement and partisan vindictiveness can also become muddied.
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Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
When circumstances create a realistic likelihood of vindictiveness, the burden shifts to the government to justify its conduct.
—Cassandra Burke Robertson, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2025
Johnson says Comey may be able to argue that he is being prosecuted out of vindictiveness, given the president's remarks.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 26 Sep. 2025
So there’s a feeling of vindictiveness and petulance that’s in there, but there’s also a practicality to it, too.
—Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 21 Sep. 2025
Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
When circumstances create a realistic likelihood of vindictiveness, the burden shifts to the government to justify its conduct.
—Cassandra Burke Robertson, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2025
Johnson says Comey may be able to argue that he is being prosecuted out of vindictiveness, given the president's remarks.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 26 Sep. 2025
So there’s a feeling of vindictiveness and petulance that’s in there, but there’s also a practicality to it, too.
—Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 21 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vindictiveness
Noun
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Many exiles, however, disagreed with that view and said the incident had only renewed their hatred for Castro.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
20 May 2026
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America remains the only large country in history where Jews have become fully equal citizens under a constitutional order strong enough, so far, to withstand waves of hatred and scapegoating.—
Michael W. Sonnenfeldt,
The Atlantic,
20 May 2026
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To predict how an outbreak will progress, epidemiologists often use stock-and-flow diagrams: illustrations featuring stocks of people (susceptible, infected, recovered, dead) and arrows showing flows between them based on factors such as exposure or virulence.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
4 Mar. 2026
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Flu has overtaken covid in infections and hospitalizations during the winter respiratory virus season, and their virulence is becoming similar.—
Fenit Nirappil,
Washington Post,
4 Mar. 2026
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Monday’s appearance was a dramatic sight based on their shared vitriol.—
Alejandro Avila OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
19 May 2026
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So, our communities are not immune to heightened vitriol and hate that targets houses of worship.—
Kaicey Baylor,
CBS News,
19 May 2026
Noun
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And this sense of mutual alienation, of being neither here nor there, that Franny and Elliott live with suggests that the political is no longer seen from a potentially abstract place and finally bleeds into realm of the personal.—
Lé Baltar,
IndieWire,
17 May 2026
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The case spurred scrutiny of Utah's family court system and reunification practices and sparked debates about parental alienation and how allegations of child abuse are investigated.—
Janelle Griffith,
PEOPLE,
13 May 2026
Noun
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In Village People’s gay-empowerment lexicon this means joining a gay community, for true abolition from the slavery of societal/self-loathing cannot be achieved on one’s own.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
11 May 2026
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What Natalie does seem driven by—more than faith, more than redirected ambition—is her instinctual loathing of other women.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
11 May 2026
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Showing the disaffection for politics and partisanship in this modern era, each of the last five midterm elections have seen presidents with ratings below 50%.—
Domenico Montanaro,
NPR,
9 May 2026
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Our hypothetical ambitious fifteen-year-old is exceptional, of course, and certainly not the bellwether for today’s disaffection about higher education.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
5 May 2026
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“Vindictiveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vindictiveness. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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