wrathfulness
noun
Synonyms
- angered
- angry
- apoplectic
- ballistic
- cheesed off [chiefly British]
- choleric
- enraged
- foaming
- fuming
- furious
- hopping
- horn-mad
- hot
- incensed
- indignant
- inflamed
- enflamed
- infuriate
- infuriated
- irate
- ireful
- livid
- mad
- outraged
- rabid
- rankled
- riled
- riley
- roiled
- shirty [chiefly British]
- sore
- steamed up
- steaming
- teed off
- ticked
- wroth
Examples of wrathful in a Sentence
in a wrathful voice she demanded to know what had happened
Recent Examples on the Web
These concessions might make Hamas even stronger, however, and a wrathful Israel is less likely than ever to be willing to take such chances.
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Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 7 Oct. 2023
The New York judge presiding over one of Donald J. Trump’s criminal trials imposed a gag order on Tuesday that prohibits him from attacking witnesses, prosecutors and jurors, the latest effort to rein in the former president’s wrathful rhetoric about his legal opponents.
—William K. Rashbaum, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
That 1991 platform worried both Washington and many of the island’s voters, who then and now, have shunned any move toward formal independence, fearing a wrathful reaction from Beijing.
—Amy Chang Chien Lam Yik Fei, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
For example, this cleanser imbues pimples with a conscious mind and wrathful spirit, compelling them to destroy their creator in a grisly bloodbath of unfathomable agony.
—Ysabel Yates, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2023
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Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 7 Oct. 2023
The New York judge presiding over one of Donald J. Trump’s criminal trials imposed a gag order on Tuesday that prohibits him from attacking witnesses, prosecutors and jurors, the latest effort to rein in the former president’s wrathful rhetoric about his legal opponents.
—William K. Rashbaum, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
That 1991 platform worried both Washington and many of the island’s voters, who then and now, have shunned any move toward formal independence, fearing a wrathful reaction from Beijing.
—Amy Chang Chien Lam Yik Fei, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
For example, this cleanser imbues pimples with a conscious mind and wrathful spirit, compelling them to destroy their creator in a grisly bloodbath of unfathomable agony.
—Ysabel Yates, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2023
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“Wrathful.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wrathful. Accessed 5 Oct. 2024.
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