as in anger
an intense emotional state of displeasure with someone or something
the wrathfulness with which he voiced his complaint was shocking
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wrathfulness
Noun
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National media stories appear almost daily about taxpayers’ anger over ever increasing levies on their homes.—
Jon Coupal,
Oc Register,
27 Mar. 2026 -
Iannarelli discussed how threatening individuals often escalate their anger verbally.—
Evonne Andris,
Miami Herald,
26 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Due to these restrictions, House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil (R-WI) outlined some provisions to skirt the Senate parliamentarian’s wrath.—
Lauren Green,
The Washington Examiner,
25 Mar. 2026
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Joe Biden’s efforts to be the most pro-labor president in history didn’t spare him the wrath of young Starbucks employees who accused him of complicity in genocide.—
George Packer,
The Atlantic,
16 Mar. 2026
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Those calls have been met with eye-rolling and righteous indignation.—
Daniel DePetris,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Mar. 2026
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But this indignation ignores what Chalamet was actually saying.—
Tiana Lowe Doescher,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Mar. 2026
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Yet session after session, the result has been the same — agencies receive their annual appropriations, public outrage over long security lines and flight delays fades, legislation languishes and workers have no guarantees their paychecks won't stop coming again.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
28 Mar. 2026
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No amount of outrageousness can mask the outrage.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
28 Mar. 2026
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Trump's broadsides against Keir Starmer, and Madrid's fury at Berlin for not backing it in the face of his attacks, have great propaganda value.—
The Week UK,
TheWeek,
22 Mar. 2026
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Donica, across from her, is on sturdier ground, fearsome to the point of awe-inspiring in the sustained fury of his fermatas, though his considerable force as a performer longs to be shaped more cleanly.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2026
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That rage drove her away from King’s politics of nonviolence and toward a more militant ideology.—
Zayd Ayers Dohrn,
New Yorker,
28 Mar. 2026
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Curled, effortless updos have been all the rage lately, from Kerry Washington and LaTanya Richardson Jackson to Olandria Carthen.—
Essence,
Essence,
26 Mar. 2026
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And Variety‘s Naman Ramachandran reports on the mood at Hong Kong Filmart, where AI and China dominated the conversation among top Asian producers, distributors and talent.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
23 Mar. 2026
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For that movie, Cummings and McCabe talked to agents, former agents and support staff to understand the mood inside the talent firms at that time.—
Mia Galuppo,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Mar. 2026
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“Wrathfulness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrathfulness. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
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