wrathful
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This is the embodiment of what linguistics professor George Lakoff called “the wrathful god.”
From Seattle Times • Aug. 1, 2022
“Despite his belief in sacrifice, renunciation and non-harm, the Mahatma became a wrathful, vengeful god in the tales of his acts, raining feces on a lawyer who defied his call for noncooperation,” Subin writes.
From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2022
But in stressing the legitimate grievances Goneril and Regan have toward their wrathful, capricious father, the production underplays what Cordelia knows about her sisters’ natures long before they reveal the full extent of their depravity.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2019
But they were fast drowned out by that voice: the one known as the “voice of Jamaica,” capable of sounding soothing as a lover’s, wrathful as a prophet’s, frisky as a naughty teenager’s.
From Salon • Mar. 24, 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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