wrathful
Example Sentences
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That 1991 platform worried both Washington and many of the island’s voters, who then and now, have shunned any move toward formal independence, fearing a wrathful reaction from Beijing.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
This is the embodiment of what linguistics professor George Lakoff called “the wrathful god.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 1, 2022
A portrait of Fudo Myo-o, a Buddhist deity, is a product of the artist Myotaku’s devotional act of painting the wrathful figure every day for 20 years.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 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
And she, she knew today that door: a living, wrathful gate.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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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