vengefully

Example Sentences

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I wasn’t thinking vengefully because I can’t look at a prison—which we did, it’s on Rarotonga—you can’t look at the outside of a prison without feeling pity for everybody who ends up there.

From Slate • Feb. 9, 2021

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

Gently the soldier, now partly recovering his strength, thrust the young girl behind him, as pushing to the foreground the woman regarded him vengefully.

From The Strollers by Fisher, Harrison