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vengeful
[ venj-fuhl ]
adjective
- desiring or seeking vengeance; vindictive:
a vengeful attitude.
Synonyms: spiteful, revengeful
- characterized by or showing a vindictive spirit:
vengeful intentions.
- serving to inflict vengeance:
a vengeful killing.
vengeful
/ ˈvɛndʒfʊl /
adjective
- desiring revenge; vindictive
- characterized by or indicating a desire for revenge
a vengeful glance
- inflicting or taking revenge
with vengeful blows
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Derived Forms
- ˈvengefully, adverb
- ˈvengefulness, noun
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Other Words From
- vengeful·ly adverb
- vengeful·ness noun
- unvengeful adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of vengeful1
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Example Sentences
So, better an angry, vengeful, mean God, who punishes a nation because some in it are having sex, than no God at all.
In certain storylines, illegal industrial pollution is just as much a villain as the vengeful monsters it creates.
Those who claim to speak for a vengeful Allah take great delight in smashing idols wherever and whenever they can get to them.
Indeed, once the fire-engine house was taken, everybody seemed impressed by John Brown, rather than infuriated or vengeful.
This 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.
Similarly in Babylonia the fragments of this class of literature which survive deal mainly with wicked and vengeful demons.
Trymore and Pringle, goading their horses frantically, were doing their utmost to get away from their vengeful comrades.
He 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 agency that caused all these to be supplied—crafty, cruel, vengeful—may readily be guessed at.
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