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

So loud are their yells, so angrily, vengefully intoned, that they who listen above begin to fear they may at length become reckless, and, coûte que coûte, risk the assault so long unattempted.

From The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora by Reid, Mayne