wrathful
Example Sentences
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When the journey of my life has reached its end, … may the peaceful and wrathful buddhas send out the power of their compassion and clear away the darkness of ignorance.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2023
This is the embodiment of what linguistics professor George Lakoff called “the wrathful god.”
From Seattle Times • Aug. 1, 2022
“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
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
And she, she knew today that door: a living, wrathful gate.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
Vocabulary lists containing wrathful
Mad Infinitum: Synonyms for "Angry"
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To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapters 1–11
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Angry
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