retaliatory
ree tal yuh taw ree
- s of or relating to or having the nature of retribution
- Such rhetoric is fairly typical of Weinstein, who claims that he has faced a retaliatory campaign of harrassment and threats, some of violence.
- After a local community board voted against the plan, Carrion removed some of the board members an act his critics called retaliatory.
- In July 1982, after a Christian Lebanese militia kidnapped the Iranian charge d'affaires in Beirut, the IRGC set in motion a campaign of retaliatory kidnappings, hijackings and .