Vindictively

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a vindictive manner.

    "For answer the boy's bravely challenging eyes met his blinking vindictively."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a vindictive, revengeful manner wordnet

Synonyms

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revengefullyrevengefullyvengefullyvengefully

Example

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"A jingle of tinkling bells mingled with the squeak of a viola; the guffaws of a rompish company blended with the tuneless chanting of discordant minstrels, and the gray parrot in its golden cage, suspended from one of the oaken beams of the ceiling, shook its feathers for the twentieth time and screamed vindictively at the roguish band."

Etymology

From vindictive + -ly.

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