wrathful
Example Sentences
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The hurt and humiliation behind Hally’s eyes allow us to adopt Sam’s sympathetic attitude toward the boy, even as Beatty refuses to soften the character’s wrathful entitlement.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
A few scenes later, when Aang demands to be released so he can save the Northern Water Tribe, Bumi becomes wrathful.
From Salon • Feb. 28, 2024
But Paige’s tragedy is that, for all her reforming zeal, she’s too wrathful to write the future.
From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2023
While Alonso de Santos is none too convincing when Segismundo turns wrathful or virtuous, the actor does ace moments of pathos, when the prince huddles twitchily in his jail cell, fidgeting with his chains.
From Washington Post • Sep. 15, 2019
She was just as I remembered—tall and gaunt, bent with arthritis, wrathful, hateful.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
Vocabulary lists containing wrathful
Mad Infinitum: Synonyms for "Angry"
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To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapters 1–11
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Angry
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