wrathful
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Nathan Lane was in a tight race with John Lithgow, who won for his ruthlessly uncompromising portrayal of a wrathful and dyspeptic Roald Dahl in Mark Rosenblatt’s “Giant.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 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
This is the embodiment of what linguistics professor George Lakoff called “the wrathful god.”
From Seattle Times • Aug. 1, 2022
He had wrathful thoughts about the police who had arrested him, the jailors who kept him here, the system that allowed this.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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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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