retaliatory

adjective

Definition of retaliatorynext
as in revengeful

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for retaliatory
  1. revengeful
  2. retributive
  3. punitive
  4. disciplinary
  5. penal
Adjective
  • Eventually, this revengeful streak will result in loneliness and isolation.
    Nicole Froio, refinery29.com, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Artemis was revengeful toward anyone who trespassed in wild nature, and trespassing could mean neglect, like not paying your dues.
    Robert Sullivan, Vogue, 20 June 2023
Definition of revengeful
Adjective
  • To be sure, some retributive violence has clearly taken place, and thousands of Syrians fearful of militant control have fled to Lebanon.
    Sam Heller, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2024
  • By then, President Franklin Pierce and his secretary of war, Jefferson Davis, had already endorsed a retributive expedition of their own against the Lakota.
    Tim Madigan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
Definition of retributive
Adjective
  • European tech leaders are concerned about the risk that punitive EU measures on U.S. tech firms could provoke a reaction from Trump, which might in turn cause the bloc to soften its approach.
    Ryan Browne, CNBC, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The former manager eventually filed an official police report in Detroit, and his attorneys are now asking for punitive and exemplary damages as well as general damages.
    Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 5 Jan. 2025
Definition of punitive
Adjective
  • At the time Cedars suspended Brock’s privileges, a spokesperson for the medical center said that privacy laws prohibited it from confirming the existence of any patient complaints or disciplinary action taken against Brock before 2024.
    Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2025
  • King had already been due to face disciplinary action in the U.S. after his release from South Korean detention.
    Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2025
Definition of disciplinary
Adjective
  • The presiding judge in the New York trial in which writer E. Jean Carroll accused Trump of abusing her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room wrote that Carroll failed to prove that she was raped within the narrow scope of the New York penal law.
    Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 19 Dec. 2024
  • But when a president, at the end of his term in office, in the interest of fairness, corrects mistakes made by the penal system during his or a previous president's term, that is often a grace note of his time in office.
    Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
Definition of penal
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retaliative

retaliatory

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