vindictiveness

The vindictiveness of the state is perhaps best illustrated in its treatment of Woodfox’s co-defendant, Herman Wallace.

But the govt, especially the executive branch, is not a stranger to vindictiveness and petty agenda following prosecutions.

Arresting the person who is yelling insults is not fine - it's vindictiveness and abuse of power.

Like people complaining about 'Obama's war on Leakers,' these assertions of prosecutorial vindictiveness are meaningless without context.

Don't forget to choose someone sane, stable, and who has no element of vindictiveness to them.

That's the sort of vindictiveness that would make me afraid to associate with a person.

The US Government (Consumer Product Safety Commission) destroyed Buckyballs strictly out of spite / vindictiveness.

Criminal justice politics in America is utterly overrun with the crudest and most cynical pandering to simple fear, revulsion and vindictiveness.

What the CEO said didn't seem inflammatory or over the top at all, it was just the facts with little or no vindictiveness.

And I didn't appreciate the vindictiveness and severity vis a vis a very small abuse of all-caps.

Overcharging with sabotage and terrorism really just shows prosecutorial vindictiveness.

Don't underestimate the vindictiveness and competitiveness of these financial guys.

It could be what he intends by the word "mean" is more along the lines of petty and emotionally immature with aspects of small-minded vindictiveness.

Yet out of either incompetence or vindictiveness, Goldman proffered the line that he had taken the "crown jewels".

I don't see it as vindictiveness but as some kind of "spammer's honey pot" -- while the recruiter is listening to this at least he's not calling someone on their team.

For profit-prisons are an opportunistic reaction to the pettiness and vindictiveness of the prison culture that grew out of the "tough on crime" movements of the 1980's and 1990's.