vindictively

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English

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Etymology

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From vindictive +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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vindictively (comparative more vindictively, superlative most vindictively)

  1. In a vindictive manner.
    • 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 164:
      For answer the boy's bravely challenging eyes met his blinking vindictively.