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vengeful

[venj-fuhl] / ˈvɛndʒ fəl /


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The other story above the front-page fold is a critique of the defense secretary: “Hegseth’s Vengeful Rhetoric Grew From Experience in Iraq.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

When asked to repeat himself, Sherman emphasized the word, "Vengeful."

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2018

Vengeful, egotistical and conservative to an impractical degree, he’s going to be incredibly hard to top.

From The Guardian • May 17, 2017

But I scanned the room from the corners of my eyes, back and forth like a minesweeper, for Claire the Vengeful.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan

Vengeful across the cold November moors, Loud with ancestral shame there came the bleak Sad wind that shrieked, and answered with a shriek, Reverberant through lonely corridors.

From Children of the Night by Robinson, Edwin Arlington




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