Despising vs Vindictive - What's the difference?
despising | vindictive |
An act of despising.
* Richard Rolle, The Fire of Love
Having a tendency to seek revenge when , vengeful.
* {{quote-book
, year=1920
, author=D. H. Lawrence
, title=Women in Love
, chapter=18
* {{quote-book
, year=1933
, author=H. G. Wells
, title=The Shape of Things to Come
(obsolete) punitive
As a verb despising
is .As a noun despising
is an act of despising.As an adjective vindictive is
having a tendency to seek revenge when , vengeful.despising
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- And sometimes despisings , reproofs, scorns, and slanders are raised against him, and therefore it is needful to take the shield of patience
vindictive
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Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=The vindictive mockery in her voice made his brain quiver.}}
citation, passage=The victors will exact vindictive penalties and the losers of course will undertake to pay, but none of them realizes that money is going to do the most extraordinary things to them when they begin upon that.}}