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What is the adjective for vindicable?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb vindicate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

vindicatory
  1. Promoting or producing vindication.
  2. Promoting or producing retribution or punishment.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. retributive, defensive, justificatory, punitive, corrective, penal, correctional, disciplinary, punitory, punishing, correcting, castigating, chastening, penalizing, castigatory, disciplining, chastising, retributory, retaliative, vindictive, retaliatory, revengeful, penitentiary, penalising, in retaliation, in reprisal, vengeful, avenging, disciplinarian, reciprocal, castigative, reformatory, reactive, tit-for-tat, reformative, ordered … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “And this model could comprise a useful vindicatory framework for that.”
      “There are vindicatory stories available to scientists, which they draw on in times of need.”
      “For Stuart Carroll it is noble violence, especially in its vindicatory aspect, that ties together and explains these contrasts.”
vindictive
  1. Having a tendency to seek revenge when wronged, vengeful.
  2. (obsolete) punitive
  3. Synonyms:
      4. spiteful, malicious, malevolent, malignant, nasty, bitter, evil, mean, rancorous, malign, baleful, cruel, venomous, vengeful, poisonous, maleficent, hurtful, catty, unkind, malefic, hateful, revengeful, unforgiving, resentful, implacable, acrimonious, avenging, relentless, merciless, unrelenting, retaliatory, grim, pitiless, grudging, ruthless, wreakful, evil-intentioned, grudge-bearing, ill-natured, ill-disposed, mean-spirited, out for revenge, full of spleen, vicious, hostile, virulent, vitriolic, wicked, bad, unfriendly … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “Malicious and vindictive people can use the legislation to get at their neighbors who have a puppy or dog next door.”
      “He was a stern, vindictive man with piercing dark eyes and a booming basso voice which always made her shudder.”
      “Its great achievement is to recover the complexity of a literary mode that could easily be dismissed as vindictive, petty, and obscure.”
vindicative
  1. Having a tendency to vindicate.
  2. Vindictive or excessively vengeful.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. vindical, vengeful, vindictive
  4. Examples:
      5. “Members of DOVE stand accused of being vindicative, scaremongering and using intimidatory tactics to name but a few.”
      “But to complain about that seems vindicative in the face of Graham Wall's plight.”
      “His vindicative antipathy to you now meets a recompense in the just indignation of Providence.”
vindicated
  1. justified, avenged or cleared of blame
  2. Synonyms:
      3. cleared, exculpated, pardoned, discharged, off the hook, acquitted, free, reprieved, blameless, exonerated, guiltless, innocent, absolved, liberated, relieved, let off, scot free, in the clear, out of trouble, free of blame, free to go, under no obligation, found not guilty, without punishment, freed, released, in the right, correct, right, justified, validated, with right on one's side, with the law on one's side, borne out, not to blame, within your rights, deserved, rightful, merited, fair, warranted, due, befitting, confirmed, just, necessary … more
vindical
  1. (obsolete, rare) Eager to punish; vindicative.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. vengeful, vindicative, vindictive
vindicable
  1. able to be vindicated; justifiable
  2. Synonyms:
      3. excusable, permissible, allowable, pardonable, justifiable, condonable, defensible, forgivable, understandable, reasonable, venial, tenable, plausible, remissible, warrantable, minor, remittable, passable, slight, trivial, fair, okay, explainable, explicable, vindicatory, all right, not too bad, legitimate, supportable, sound, defendable, sustainable, maintainable, rational, acceptable, right, logical, valid, able to hold water, sensible, proper, arguable, strong, admissible, well-founded, justified, just, viable, credible, reliable … more
vindicating
  1. present participle of vindicate
  2. Synonyms:
      3. confirming, verifying, supporting, substantiating, validating, corroborating, authenticating, upholding, proving, certifying, attesting, establishing, ratifying, demonstrating, backing, arguing, evidencing, advocating, asserting, maintaining, contending, seconding, extenuating, bearing out, bearing witness to, giving credence to, lending weight to, pleading for, doing justice to, justifying, endorsing, backing up, vouching for, attesting to, testifying to, sustaining, approving, warranting, affirming, showing to be true, giving proof of, accrediting, giving substance to, legitimizing, documenting, legitimising, buttressing, showing, guaranteeing, defending … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “However, if such information contained exculpatory evidence, the defense would be deprived of potentially vindicating evidence.”
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