revengeful

Example Sentences

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“Ulysses can fight, but it’s not about him becoming this kind of revengeful wraith moving through the movie dispatching people. It’s action, but with empathy.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026

“The real evils in war,” St. Augustine once wrote, are “love of violence, revengeful cruelty, fierce and implacable enmity, wild resistance, and the lust of power.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

It’s vulgar and vivacious, big and brutal, full of rivaling monarchies, Machiavellian ministers, feuding families, revengeful prostitutes, evil priests and a century-old witch, all vying for power in James’ extraordinarily imagined African kingdoms.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 25, 2022

"It is absolutely essential that we stay focused on how in this transitional period, nobody loses their head, nobody goes off half-cock, people don't start moving on scatter-brained or revengeful premises," Kerry added.

From Reuters • Jun. 27, 2016

Some of them were fearful, some revengeful for their comrade, some, as it were, disbothed in the sleep-walk of their stealth.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White