Example sentences for: vindictive

How can you use “vindictive” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Received letter from GOP Chair Jim Nicholson and found it "petty, it's vindictive and it's insulting."

  • She doesn't answer questions in public, lacks a political philosophy, barely speaks Hindi (she's Italian), and is legendarily vindictive, yet she's India's most popular politician.

  • The tabloid Daily Mail quoted Thatcher as saying that Straw had "demeaned his office" with a vindictive decision.

  • The low-key coverage of the event reflected several pre-established media themes: a) Steele is a "peripheral" figure hounded by a vindictive special prosecutor, Kenneth Starr; b) the Steele trial is a pathetic coda to Flytrap's now-finished symphony ("Starr's Last Gasps," says Time ); and c) the sole remaining function of the case is to help determine the credibility of Kathleen Willey, the Richmond, Va., socialite who accuses President Clinton of crudely groping her near the Oval Office in 1993.

  • If he wants to expose criminal behavior by the president and punish it no matter what--if, in short, he is the vindictive avenger Clinton's defenders say he is--Starr will sacrifice no advantage.


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