vengeful
adjective
desiring or seeking vengeance; vindictive.
vengefully
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a word derived from
vengeful.
Example Sentences
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In 2004’s Transmission, a naïve Indian computer programmer immigrates to Silicon Valley in search of a hedonistic version of the American Dream and ends up vengefully taking down global computer networks with a virus.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2017
At the height of my struggle with Spotify’s awkward interface, I went through and vengefully counted the taps it took to get into the app, find a song, and play it.
From The Verge ● Jul. 17, 2015
She showed me a huge cement lump painted a patchwork of vengefully strident colors that segued into lovely filmy golds and violets.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 15, 2014
The Italian film, written and directed by Giorgio Diritti, follows the personal crisis of a young woman who has miscarried and been vengefully divorced by her husband.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2013
And in a huff, like the big boy that he was, he flounced about, vengefully striding on as though punishing her for a misdemeanor.
From Desert Dust by J. Clinton Shepherd
