Vindictivity

"Vindictivity" in a Sentence (6 examples)

Is shocked by the “malice, hate and vindictivity with which they ‘the rascally pack from fen & forest’ have belied, abused & attempted to injure you.”

Richard’s vociferocity and incomprehensibility of vindictivity in antidisestablishmentarianism is the height of epiphenonimasticity — (just getting even).

Thus the idea of Mother went being degenerated. The Illusion-Maker, the Misery-creator, the Power which was in the end sure to be abused, Consort, Goddess of the five “M”s, Goddess of animal and human sacrifice, drinking and adultery, Goddess that took possession of Her devotees, (who would then be worshipped and requested to bless others and tell future, etc.), Goddess of fear and wrathfulness, vindictivity and cruelty, Goddess that would punish for even unconscious errors, Goddess of dacoits, robbers and thieves, and Goddess of black magic, etc.

Can nouns ending in -tivity be formed from all adjectives ending in -ive? / They can, but should not. Let’s make a few, and see how they look: exhaustivity, vindictivity, productivity, conductivity, tentativity, lucrativity, negativity, inquisitivity, affirmativity, executivity, irrespectivity—well, that’s enough to show that some such derivatives (not on account of their derivativity alone!) are barbarous, some are acceptable in an emergency, and a few are in common use. Where -ivity won’t work, the ending -ness may do.

His vindictivity toward Dana rages very hot and he rarely misses a chance at catching Dana off guard.

Acid throwing is one of the heinous activities occurred by angry youths out of denial of proposal for love. This is also caused out of vindictivity, old enmity, or if denied any proposal.

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