vengefulness
noun
Examples of vengeful in a Sentence
The robbery was committed by a vengeful former employee.
The fire was a vengeful act of destruction.
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Something to do with the vengeful atmosphere and disappearing grasslands.
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Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
After killing Ellen’s youngest son, who’d taken over his dad’s old job on Amity Island, the vengeful shark seemingly follows her all the way down the Bahamas.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 21 June 2025
And the road rage is palpable and knuckle-clenching as a traveling salesman tries to avoid getting run off the road and killed by a vengeful big rig driver.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 20 June 2025
His reporting rejects the tendency of other publications to pathologize Palestinian armed resistance as a vengeful, antidialectical undertaking: the domain of savages whose motivations can be empathized with, but whose methods can never be endorsed as legal, just, or effective.
—Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
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Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
After killing Ellen’s youngest son, who’d taken over his dad’s old job on Amity Island, the vengeful shark seemingly follows her all the way down the Bahamas.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 21 June 2025
And the road rage is palpable and knuckle-clenching as a traveling salesman tries to avoid getting run off the road and killed by a vengeful big rig driver.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 20 June 2025
His reporting rejects the tendency of other publications to pathologize Palestinian armed resistance as a vengeful, antidialectical undertaking: the domain of savages whose motivations can be empathized with, but whose methods can never be endorsed as legal, just, or effective.
—Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for vengeful
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“Vengeful.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vengeful. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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