the.com/vindictiveness
revenge served cold, but you're the one freezing in the kitchen waiting.
means The quality of being driven by a strong, often spiteful desire for revenge or to punish someone who has wronged you.
from From the Latin 'vindicta,' meaning vengeance or revenge, which gave us 'vindictive' by the 17th century. 'Vindicta' is bound up with the verb 'vindicare' — to lay claim to, to avenge, to set free — the same root that, taking a kinder path, gave us 'vindicate.' So the urge to get even and the wish to be cleared share a single ancestor; one branch forgives you, the other never quite does.
- brain cost
- plotting payback lights up the same reward circuits as cocaine
- backfire rate
- studies show revenge prolongs anger instead of ending it
- latin root
- comes from vindicare, to claim or avenge
- two graves
- old proverb warns to dig one for yourself too
- legal cousin
- courts recognize vindictive prosecution as grounds for dismissal
count of monte cristo — edmond dantès spends 14 years plotting revenge against those who wrongfully imprisoned him
herman melville moby dick — captain ahab pursues the white whale across oceans for years after it took his leg
oj simpson trial — defense strategy centered on alleged police vendetta; simpson acquitted in 1995 despite civil liability finding