wrathful

Example Sentences

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When the journey of my life has reached its end, … may the peaceful and wrathful buddhas send out the power of their compassion and clear away the darkness of ignorance.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2023

This is the embodiment of what linguistics professor George Lakoff called “the wrathful god.”

From Seattle Times • Aug. 1, 2022

Though lifting even the tiniest shield causes Owl to fall backward, and he has “a habit of nodding off during the day,” his chivalry will charm even the most wrathful dragons among us.

From New York Times • Jun. 24, 2022

“Despite his belief in sacrifice, renunciation and non-harm, the Mahatma became a wrathful, vengeful god in the tales of his acts, raining feces on a lawyer who defied his call for noncooperation,” Subin writes.

From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2022

She was just as I remembered—tall and gaunt, bent with arthritis, wrathful, hateful.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn