| At some point, spying, vindictiveness, cruelty, manipulation, and rudeness turn against the one dishing those things out. |
| It is very sad to observe two obviously intelligent men being reduced to mere farce by bitterness and vindictiveness. |
| As for the magistrates, they have demonstrated either an amazing lack of imagination and intelligence or, more worryingly, vindictiveness. |
| For some reason they have also chosen to crank the thumbscrews with an added splash of vindictiveness. |
| These threats have all the vindictiveness and crankiness of hate mail, and they had their effect. |
| But to be hung, drawn and quartered for the freedom of speech our troops were supposed to be fighting for, just smacks of vindictiveness. |
