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Recent Examples of vengefulness
This action demonstrates the president’s monumental cruelty, total lack of empathy and compassion, pathological narcissism, boundless vengefulness, abysmal ignorance and glaring immaturity.
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Voice Of The People,
New York Daily News,
21 Apr. 2026
The thought of this act of petty vengefulness, and others like it, were later on to fill me with remorse.
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Literary Hub,
8 Oct. 2025
In her boredom — or maybe loose sense of vengefulness — Julie turns her attention to Paul’s best friend, Carey (Kyle Marvin), who has recently split from his wife.
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Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
22 Aug. 2025
Voice Of The People,
New York Daily News,
21 Apr. 2026
The thought of this act of petty vengefulness, and others like it, were later on to fill me with remorse.
—
Literary Hub,
8 Oct. 2025
In her boredom — or maybe loose sense of vengefulness — Julie turns her attention to Paul’s best friend, Carey (Kyle Marvin), who has recently split from his wife.
—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
22 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vengefulness
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Last month, Judge Crenshaw concluded that while there was insufficient evidence to prove actual vindictiveness, the government could not justify its sudden shift from wanting to deport Abrego Garcia to prosecuting him.
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In less capable hands, her bitchiness, her vanity, her vindictiveness would have made her one-dimensional.
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Although Ashley had alleged things like malice, ill-will and improper motives by Adam, that still fell short of proving that Adam knew that his statements were false.
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The documentary explores the dark web of fraud, deception and malice that led Parker to feign a pregnancy to try to bolster her relationship with boyfriend Wade Griffin — and when her fake due date passed, kill Hancock for her baby, Braxlynn Sage.
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The result is a disturbing chiasmus: the whimsy of malevolence, the malevolence of whimsy.
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The rise of Santa Muerte The other folk saint tied to narco culture is Santa Muerte, whose Grim Reaper appearance and relative obscurity prompt assumptions of malevolence.
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The jealousy that emanates from every pore of this guy is uncontrollable.
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Whether your emotions understood the assignment, an uncomfortable revelation could expose jealousy, control issues, fears or the fact that a power dynamic has shifted.
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In spite of their original values of humanitarianism and neutrality, these organizations have been morally debased from within, using the language of human rights and international justice yet deploying it on behalf of autocracies and against the liberal democracies that created them.
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The ball got away from Witt at short in spite of his best efforts to keep it on the infield.
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Google also mentioned that the system could do more general hypothesizing that doesn’t involve drugs, using an example of the spread of virulence genes in bacteria.
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To predict how an outbreak will progress, epidemiologists often use stock-and-flow diagrams: illustrations featuring stocks of people (susceptible, infected, recovered, dead) and arrows showing flows between them based on factors such as exposure or virulence.
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Unlike the 13 colonies, East and West Florida were largely unaffected by the British Stamp Act and other taxes that fueled resentment elsewhere because the colonies produced relatively little for the British colonial economy.
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When a leader isn't accountable to the process, the word becomes a do-as-I-say cliché that breeds resentment instead of results.
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The entertainment industry has spent a decade trying to reverse-engineer A24 — low key, because unbridled envy is a bad look.
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California’s tax system is the envy of progressive states and the nightmare of budget directors.
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“Vengefulness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vengefulness. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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