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wrathful

[rath-fuhl, rahth-, rawth-] / ˈræθ fəl, ˈrɑθ-, ˈrɔθ- /


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The hurt and humiliation behind Hally’s eyes allow us to adopt Sam’s sympathetic attitude toward the boy, even as Beatty refuses to soften the character’s wrathful entitlement.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

A few scenes later, when Aang demands to be released so he can save the Northern Water Tribe, Bumi becomes wrathful.

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2024

But Paige’s tragedy is that, for all her reforming zeal, she’s too wrathful to write the future.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2023

“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

In the photograph he was only sixteen years old, but he already looked wrathful and fierce.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson




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