revengeful
Example Sentences
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“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.”
She would later say in a court filing that this argument was the source of his “revengeful false reporting.”
From New York Times
In many another story, too, she is fierce and revengeful.
From Literature
In her diary, Morgan called him “unduly revengeful,” and the superintendent of Hearst’s ranch said that Rossi “seemed to glory in human misery.”
From Los Angeles Times
“Fear of punches must be overcome, calm must be maintained, and revengeful feelings must be avoided.”
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
