vindictive
adjective
he never destroyed a person simply on the say-so of vindictive enemies:
vengeful, out for revenge, revengeful, avenging, unforgiving, grudge-bearing, resentful, ill-disposed, implacable, unrelenting, acrimonious, bitter;
spiteful, mean, mean-spirited, rancorous, venomous, poisonous, malicious, malevolent, malignant, malign, evil, evil-intentioned, nasty, cruel, unkind, ill-natured, baleful;
informal catty, bitchy;
literary malefic, maleficent.
▷antonyms forgiving.