vengeful
adjective
desiring or seeking vengeance; vindictive.
vengefulness
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a word derived from
vengeful.
Example Sentences
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Perhaps he did not want to risk the wrath of the American president, with his reputation for vengefulness.
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2026
Pickett survived but fell into a slough of despond and vengefulness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
He’s fine — he adroitly underplays Meyer’s compassionate vengefulness amid the noisier, more hyperbolic elements of a comic-book-style action fantasy.
From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2020
I think, too, of the ending of “Moby-Dick,” in which a broken Captain Ahab, frothing with vengefulness, spots the white whale he’s been hunting, and begins to scream.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 31, 2019
He would risk anything to escape this man, to flee from the vengefulness radiating from his body.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
