vengefulness

Example Sentences

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Perhaps he did not want to risk the wrath of the American president, with his reputation for vengefulness.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026

Pickett survived but fell into a slough of despond and vengefulness.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2024

I think, too, of the ending of “Moby-Dick,” in which a broken Captain Ahab, frothing with vengefulness, spots the white whale he’s been hunting, and begins to scream.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 31, 2019

That she loses them to a terrible betrayal, in a vulnerable moment, forms the roots of the vengefulness for which she is known.

From New York Times • May 29, 2014

He would risk anything to escape this man, to flee from the vengefulness radiating from his body.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro