ADJ-GRADED 想复仇的;报复性的;怀恨在心的 If you say that someone is vindictive, you are critical of them because they deliberately try to upset or cause trouble for someone who they think has done them harm. 想复仇的;报复性的;怀恨在心的 [disapproval]
How can you be so vindictive?
你的报复心怎么那么强?
...a vindictive woman desperate for revenge against the man who loved and left her.