vengeful

Example Sentences

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You know, over grievance, anger, desire to become notorious — they wanted to enact their suicidal and vengeful fantasies on people they felt tormented them.

From Salon

At the funeral, spiritual leaders rejected vengeful thinking.

From Seattle Times

He was one of America's most Janus-faced leaders, a protean figure who could sincerely shift from the pragmatic reformer to the vengeful autocrat without any apparent qualms.

From Salon

She recounts how wolves are described as vengeful murderers when they kill livestock inside a farmer’s fences; and she writes about how people who cross borders are described in animalistic terms as a feared other.

From Washington Post

The next day, she decided to make him his favorite Sunday meal, fried chicken, with a vengeful twist: a cloak of cayenne so painfully spicy she thought it would teach Prince a lesson.

From Washington Post