vengefully

Example Sentences

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In 2004’s Transmission, a naïve Indian computer programmer immigrates to Silicon Valley in search of a hedonistic version of the American Dream and ends up vengefully taking down global computer networks with a virus.

From Slate • Mar. 20, 2017

At the height of my struggle with Spotify’s awkward interface, I went through and vengefully counted the taps it took to get into the app, find a song, and play it.

From The Verge • Jul. 17, 2015

She showed me a huge cement lump painted a patchwork of vengefully strident colors that segued into lovely filmy golds and violets.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 15, 2014

The Italian film, written and directed by Giorgio Diritti, follows the personal crisis of a young woman who has miscarried and been vengefully divorced by her husband.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2013

“I’d swim that far, or drown, even in this sea,” muttered Dawson, vengefully, “if I had any idea that our boat lay over that way.”

From The Motor Boat Club and The Wireless Or, the Dot, Dash and Dare Cruise by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)