vindictiveness

基本解釋

But vindictiveness is not a good policy.
但是，“報復(fù)”并不是一個好的策略。
As usual, it is the ordinary Darfuris who will bear the burden of the government’s vindictiveness.
像往常一樣，這一次又是達(dá)爾富爾的普通民眾來承擔(dān)政府報復(fù)行為的后果。
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.
在她現(xiàn)在的面容上，那白白的雙頰，沒有血色的唇，以及閃爍的眼睛都顯出一種狂野的要復(fù)仇的心情；在她的握緊的手指中間還留有她剛才抓住的一把頭發(fā)。

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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