vindictively
- r in a vindictive, revengeful manner
he plotted vindictively against his former superiors
- Moscow's long-suffering moviegoers glowed vindictively: the managers of the city's neighborhood moviehouses were at last writhing under the official knout.
- Yet the probes were so haphazardly and sometimes vindictively conducted and so many secrets were leaked that public opinion has appeared to shift back in support of the embattled .
- Can a disparity like this last? I think much of the news in the next 50 years is going to turn on whether we yield to the inevitable graciously or vindictively.