в отместку

• В ОТМЕСТКУ (за что) coll

[PrepP; Invar; adv]

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⇒ (to do sth.) in redress (for an injury, insult etc):

- in (by way of) revenge;

- in retaliation;

- to pay s.o. back;

- to get back at s.o.

     ♦ [Генерал Бетрищев] не любил всех, которые ушли вперёд его по службе... Больше всего доставалось его прежнему сотоварищу, которого считал он ниже себя и умом и способностями и который, однако же, обогнал его... В отместку язвил он его при всяком случае... (Гоголь 3). Не [General Betrishchev] disliked everyone who had been promoted beyond his rank in the service. ...He particularly singled out for attack a former comrade-in-arms of his, whom he considered to be his inferior in intelligence and abilities and who, nevertheless, had advanced faster in the service. ...In revenge he taunted him at every opportunity... (3c) He [General Betrishchev] did not like those who rose above him in the service. ...The man he attacked most of all was a former colleague whom he regarded as inferior to himself in intelligence and abilitites and who nevertheless had got ahead of him. ...By way of revenge, he taunted him at every favorable opportunity... (3a).

     ♦ С пьяным упорством я противоречу Надеину в отместку за его слова о русских (Коротюков 1). I contradicted Nadein with drunken obstinacy to pay him back for what he had said about Russians (1a).