vengeful
Origin of vengeful
1Other words for vengeful
Other words from vengeful
- venge·ful·ly, adverb
- venge·ful·ness, noun
- unvengeful, adjective
Words Nearby vengeful
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How to use vengeful in a sentence
So far we’ve watched Balto and Wolfwalkers, the latter a 2020 film about a girl who turns into a wolf and must help save her fellow canines—and the wild lands they inhabit—from vengeful humans.
Wolves Are Still the Bad Guys in Children’s Media. Let’s Change That. | lwhelan | December 29, 2021 | Outside OnlineActivist Charlie Kirk warned of a “vengeful mob that seeks to destroy our way of life, our neighborhoods, schools, churches and values.”
The state will argue, Leitess said, that Ramos was a vengeful narcissist who believed he was smarter than everyone else.
Defense experts say Capital Gazette shooter was driven by mental disorders. Prosecutors say he was out for revenge. | Katie Mettler, Emily Davies | July 8, 2021 | Washington PostThat depends on your flour, the ambient humidity and, I believe, whether the pie gods are feeling vengeful.
America forgot how to make proper pie. Can we remember before it’s too late? | Megan McArdle | July 1, 2021 | Washington PostGone is her psychotic look and her murderous, vengeful hatred for everything around her.
Every ‘Mass Effect’ squadmate, ranked from a storytelling perspective | Jhaan Elker | June 4, 2021 | Washington Post
So, better an angry, vengeful, mean God, who punishes a nation because some in it are having sex, than no God at all.
Liberian Pastors Blame Ebola on Gays, The Right Blames Obama | Jay Michaelson | October 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn certain storylines, illegal industrial pollution is just as much a villain as the vengeful monsters it creates.
A Political History of the ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ | Asawin Suebsaeng | August 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThose who claim to speak for a vengeful Allah take great delight in smashing idols wherever and whenever they can get to them.
ISIS Is About to Destroy Biblical History in Iraq | Christopher Dickey | July 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIndeed, once the fire-engine house was taken, everybody seemed impressed by John Brown, rather than infuriated or vengeful.
When Robert E. Lee Met John Brown and Saved the Union | Michael Korda | May 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis is part the judgmental aestheticism of my mother hovering in my consciousness like a vengeful Jewish Yoda.
These continued to be represented by their attendants, who executed a deity's stern and vengeful decrees.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria | Donald A. MackenzieSimilarly in Babylonia the fragments of this class of literature which survive deal mainly with wicked and vengeful demons.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria | Donald A. MackenzieTrymore and Pringle, goading their horses frantically, were doing their utmost to get away from their vengeful comrades.
Motor Matt's Mystery | Stanley R. MatthewsHe did smile, a vengeful smile, as he thought of the trouble the black brute had put him to, with the chagrin it had caused him.
The Vee-Boers | Mayne ReidThe agency that caused all these to be supplied—crafty, cruel, vengeful—may readily be guessed at.
Forging the Blades | Bertram Mitford
British Dictionary definitions for vengeful
/ (ˈvɛndʒfʊl) /
desiring revenge; vindictive
characterized by or indicating a desire for revenge: a vengeful glance
inflicting or taking revenge: with vengeful blows
Derived forms of vengeful
- vengefully, adverb
- vengefulness, noun
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