vindictiveness

基本解释

But vindictiveness is not a good policy.
但是，“报复”并不是一个好的策略。
As usual, it is the ordinary Darfuris who will bear the burden of the government’s vindictiveness.
像往常一样，这一次又是达尔富尔的普通民众来承担政府报复行为的后果。
Her present countenance had a wild vindictiveness in its white cheek, and a bloodless lip and scintillating eye; and she retained in her closed fingers a portion of the locks she had been grasping.
在她现在的面容上，那白白的双颊，没有血色的唇，以及闪烁的眼睛都显出一种狂野的要复仇的心情；在她的握紧的手指中间还留有她刚才抓住的一把头发。

But the prosecution of Mr Drake and others like him smacks more of vindictiveness and message-sending than justice.
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It follows, then, that the appearance of pettiness, vindictiveness and defensiveness are just as bad as the real thing.
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