wrathful

Example Sentences

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“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

The lights turn her into a colossal silhouette, the music becomes unnerving, as she transforms into a wrathful messiah.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 23, 2020

But in stressing the legitimate grievances Goneril and Regan have toward their wrathful, capricious father, the production underplays what Cordelia knows about her sisters’ natures long before they reveal the full extent of their depravity.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2019

But they were fast drowned out by that voice: the one known as the “voice of Jamaica,” capable of sounding soothing as a lover’s, wrathful as a prophet’s, frisky as a naughty teenager’s.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2019

Achilles came and Ajax, still wrathful because of the armor of Achilles which the Greek captains had given to Odysseus and not to him.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton