Sentence examples for a vindictive gesture from inspiring English sources

"Remember", it went, "a voter discharges his or her duty as a participant in a democratic republic not by making a vindictive gesture or hoping to effect some far fetched strategy, but by voting as if the outcome depended on his or her vote alone".

But corrections authorities are restricting him to his new hometown, Virginia Beach, and critics accuse the state of a parting vindictive gesture by officials chagrined that the Washington case has stirred increased notoriety about Virginia's criminal justice system.

That's a vindictive prosecution".

"He's a vindictive little man.

I've never been a vindictive person.

He has a volatile temper and a vindictive streak.

Or the mighty storm sent by a vindictive Zeus.

But a vindictive governor keeps throwing him in solitary.

Further, Maynard showcases what he calls a "vindictive streak" in Wilson.

It is a vindictive assault by the protesters on grieving family members at their weakest moment.

Somewhere in his mind, he already thought of it as a vindictive tumor.