Maggie took the opposite view very strongly, and it was a direct consequence of this difference of opinion that when her mother was in the act of brushing out the reluctant black crop Maggie suddenly rushed from under her hands and dipped her head in a basin of water standing near, in the vindictive determination that there should be no more chance of curls that day.
The vindictive fire was still burning in him, and he could utter no word of retractation; but it was nevertheless in his mind that having come back to this hearth where he had enjoyed a caressing friendship he had found calamity seated there—he had had suddenly revealed to him a trouble that lay outside the home as well as within it.
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
"I am sorry to see a pupil of mine displaying such a temper and such a vindictive spirit," he said in a solemn tone, as if the mere fact of being a pupil of his ought to root out all evil passions from the hearts of small imperfect mortals.
As the great day approached, all the tyranny that was in him came to the surface; he seemed to take a vindictive pleasure in punishing the least shortcomings.
She roused up, now, with a vindictive cast in her eye, and gave her plaited tails a shake and said she knew what she'd do.
"You have been wonderfully quick," her father retorted, with a vindictive politeness that was quite thrown away upon her.
It leads nowhere, resolves nothing and when the heat of an argument cools down it leaves you feeling angry, vindictive and upset.
" You don't have to say which company you're going to, Mazzocchi adds: "There are actually people who will call someone they know at the new company and badmouth you, just to be vindictive.
He's mean, vindictive, and always circles around different women, from prostitutes to wealthy businesswomen.
( G) It is not true suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
That's vindictive.
