as in angry
feeling or showing anger in a wrathful voice she demanded to know what had happened

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Recent Examples of wrathful Some look sad, some look funny, some even look wrathful. Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2025 Watch No Exit on Hulu 22 of 30 No One Will Save You Brynn (Kaitlyn Dever) is satisfied with living a solitary life in her childhood home, until her residence is intruded by wrathful extraterrestrials. Lia Beck, People.com, 25 Oct. 2024 Neither director Alex Proyas nor screenwriters David J. Schow and John Shirley skimp on the visual or narrative accoutrements needed to make this film feel alternately melancholy and wrathful. Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2024 When and how to use the military power of a fractious coalition to protect a band of rebels from a wrathful, erratic dictator? Richard A. Falkenrath, Foreign Affairs, 5 May 2011 See All Example Sentences for wrathful
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Adjective
  • Nick went to his grave angry The Citadel had let Marc play that day.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Good intentions, sure, but when is angry bipartisanship not going to be a part of the American culture?
    Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Everyone has an opinion about the correct address for ladies, and everyone is indignant when others’ choices are different.
    Judith Martin, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Still, Waits' daughter was indignant.
    Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Mistaken as the murderer, Mary is stoned and buried alive in a shallow grave by the enraged townspeople.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The defense attorney, Michael Caesar, told jurors that Bragg became enraged after Gladney outed him as a gay man, and sought revenge.
    Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Fox News mad that there are so many old white people in America.
    Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The woman was going to drive him mad.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Parents would likely be outraged to learn the department isn’t more consistently tracking this information, said Charles Hobson, a professor at Indiana University Northwest and a board member of the advocacy group Stop Educator Sexual Abuse Misconduct & Exploitation.
    Danielle DuClos, jsonline.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • A number of festival viewers were outraged.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Soon, the faces of the angered New York City citizens around her soften.
    Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Foster shared the example of a 29-year-old who only recently cut the cord on parental tracking, and their mother was furious.
    Don Riddell, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
  • At the time, fans around the league were furious because the Oilers had already had the first overall pick three times in the previous five years.
    Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • And a ballistic Sean Payton dash onto the field to protest the call that led to another flag and the distance to the end zone cut to a yard.
    Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 20 Oct. 2025
  • At trial, his attorney told jurors that there was no witness to the crime, no DNA, no confession, and no ballistic or physical evidence connecting Shockley to Graham's murder.
    Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025

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“Wrathful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrathful. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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