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revengeful

adjective as in seeking revenge

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She would later say in a court filing that this argument was the source of his “revengeful false reporting.”

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Civil Service Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt, in a letter to his sister, said of the revengeful violence, “Personally, I think it a rather good thing.”

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In many another story, too, she is fierce and revengeful.

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One colonial historian wrote that the Coromantee were “hardy, laborious, and manageable under mild and just treatment,” but warned that they were “fierce, violent, and revengeful under injury and provocation.”

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In her diary, Morgan called him “unduly revengeful,” and the superintendent of Hearst’s ranch said that Rossi “seemed to glory in human misery.”

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