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Перевод: vindictive
[прилагательное] мстительный; карательный
Тезаурус:
- "You too would be vindictive," he blurted, "if you were driven out of your home by a howling mob just because your father had apostatised!"
- The use of catamites in mining compounds, the vindictive obtuseness of Christian missionary influence, changing attitudes to miscegenation and concubinage, the varieties of brothel culture across the world.
- The Archbishop of York, John Habgood, described the preface as a sour and vindictive outburst from a disappointed cleric.
- With Jenny Blyth nowhere to be found - vindictive press reports claiming that the marriage of the decade was on the rocks - he became embroiled in an unseemly dispute with his own club.
- The man's face was eager, greedy, vindictive; his arm was raised with a great jagged knife clasped in it.
- Or Strauss expressing his fears of the "Philistine, the obtuse vindictive critic"?
- But the poem remained unfinished, a consequence, he later said, of the vindictive ill will which Charles Lloyd had begun to show towards him, perhaps with encouragement from Robert Southey.
- I suppose that the average Briton, although not naturally vindictive and revengeful, would be inclined to smile broadly at the idea of 3000 Inland
- I gave him a hard releasing shove in the general direction of Sam, Perkin and an open-mouthed Gareth and at last watched a dozen restraining hands clutch and keep him from destroying himself entirely, but he struggled against them and turned his vindictive face my way and shouted in still exploding rage, " I'll kill you."
- With vindictive satisfaction Lefevre heard the splintering of teeth.
- In the aftermath of the Vietnam war it had agreed to take in those fleeing from the persecution of a vindictive regime and agreed to resettle those who fled by boat.
- With sterling continuing to gain ground against both the dollar and the German mark, vindictive traders again spent their time picking on stocks with high overseas earnings.
- The Tories have more or less run out of good ideas which inspired them in the early Thatcher years, and are left only with a few bad ones: the creation of new, ever more incompetent "private" monopolies; the vindictive pursuit of aged war criminals; the idiotic struggle to knock a penny off income tax, which will benefit nobody, when so much more could be achieved with a little imagination - by abolishing all discriminatory rates, abolishing capital transfer tax and other taxes on savings, allowing domestic wages (as all other forms of employment are allowed) against personal taxation
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