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Eager to take revenge for a perceived wrong.

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vindictive

The novel's vindictive landlord tries to punish every critic.
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A vindictive regent in an invented island story seeks to humiliate a mapmaker who publicly questioned the accuracy of his official map.
From Authority and Retaliation in Fiction.
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