Definition of "vindicativeness" []

• The quality of being vindicative. (noun)

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• "As for Becky Sharp, with her treachery, her cruelty, her vindicativeness, perhaps we could better have understood and forgiven her had we known her lonely and neglected childhood, with the drunken artist father and her mother, the French opera girl."
• "As for Becky Sharp, with her treachery, her cruelty, her vindicativeness {sic}, perhaps we could better have understood and forgiven her had we known her lonely and neglected childhood, with the drunken artist father and her mother, the French opera girl."