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Recent Examples of vengefulness
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.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
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
Noun
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When circumstances create a realistic likelihood of vindictiveness, the burden shifts to the government to justify its conduct.—
Cassandra Burke Robertson,
The Conversation,
8 Oct. 2025
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Johnson says Comey may be able to argue that he is being prosecuted out of vindictiveness, given the president's remarks.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
26 Sep. 2025
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They’re built not to resist developers but, as their name suggests, they’re intentionally designed, with a degree of malice, to annoy someone specific.—
Lilit Marcus,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
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Emerson's defense team argued that the case was more about mental health than malice.—
Maddie Garfinkle,
PEOPLE,
22 Oct. 2025
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Meanwhile, there was an undercurrent of malevolence coming from the Sabres’ Mason Geertsen (6-foot-5, 231 pounds), who got into a couple of jawing matches with 6-foot-7, 255-pound Nikita Zadorov, but nothing came of it.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
12 Oct. 2025
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To watch Lipe-Smith’s Caroline cuddle in bed watching TV on her iPad, or bopping around to JoJo Siwa, or pensively finishing a Popsicle while sitting beside her grandmother at a museum, is to have the sheer malevolence of our current administration and its adherents thrown into sharp relief.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
1 Oct. 2025
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Hedda orchestrates a ruthless game of manipulation, where lust, jealousy and betrayal collide.—
Patrick Hipes,
Deadline,
21 Oct. 2025
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If anything, Todd Penn is thinking too small in his jealousy over Hal and Grace’s working relationship.—
Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
18 Oct. 2025
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The return of Beyond Meat could be the latest signal of a frothy market, one that is relentlessly climbing higher in spite of concerns around elevated valuations and a possible artificial intelligence bubble.—
Sarah Min,
CNBC,
22 Oct. 2025
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These deployments are nothing more than partisan spite from an increasingly unhinged aspiring dictator, and the Supreme Court must halt them.—
Newsweek Contributors,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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One Pasteurella-like microbe carried genetic hints of virulence and has ties to deadly outbreaks in modern African elephants.—
Pranjal Malewar,
New Atlas,
30 Sep. 2025
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While VUMs require more testing to establish their true risks to public health, VOIs are explicitly confirmed to have genetic changes that affect virus characteristics like transmissibility and virulence.—
Jack Knudson,
Discover Magazine,
9 June 2025
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Over the years, resentment built up as his father brushed off his attempts to talk about the situation.—
Ashley Vega,
PEOPLE,
27 Oct. 2025
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Ignoring your needs only builds quiet resentment later.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
27 Oct. 2025
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How to turn envy into fuel, reclaim your pace, and build without losing yourself in someone else’s timeline.—
Essence,
Essence,
18 Oct. 2025
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Sanogo said that, when individuals do not have the resources to buy everyday essentials or discretionary luxuries, seeing others treat expensive items casually can create feelings of scarcity, which may lead to envy or resentment.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Vengefulness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vengefulness. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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