Preposition: for

• reason: However, you go far beyond questioning imo, you're very insulting and vindictive for no apparent good reason.

Modifies a noun

• act: We discussed many things including a rather vindictive act on the part of someone who has recently left my employer's employ.

• side: As one friend puts it: 'Monty does have a slightly vindictive side.

• woman: Simply a vindictive young woman or some vengeful phantom from his past?

• way: I called it a vindictive, mechanical way they withdrew the whip from Len Hurst.

• spirit: It is the vindictive spirit, the spirit that always demands reparation, that Christ is criticizing.

• campaign: He accuses her of waging a vindictive campaign against Sonia.

Modifying Another Word

• not: The word I'd use is demeaning but I'm not vindictive, so I'm not posting the URL.

• very: The press hound the lovers, the government spin doctors try to suppress all news and Joanna's husband becomes very vindictive.

• rather: Labor Members have behaved like rather vindictive members of a political party.

• personally: By all accounts he was a hard drinking, personally vindictive man with a grudge.

• plain: Go on, be imaginative, or just plain vindictive!

• even: There were also some allegations of deliberate and even vindictive assaults on at least two of the residents.

Used with adjective complement

• become: The press hound the lovers, the government spin doctors try to suppress all news and Joanna's husband becomes very vindictive.