vengefulness
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
The story’s bleakness, its motifs of environmental destruction and the possibility of human extinction give it resonance, as does its allegory of the despair and vengefulness fostered by the Cultural Revolution.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2023
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
