wrathful
Example Sentences
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When the journey of my life has reached its end, … may the peaceful and wrathful buddhas send out the power of their compassion and clear away the darkness of ignorance.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2023
Though lifting even the tiniest shield causes Owl to fall backward, and he has “a habit of nodding off during the day,” his chivalry will charm even the most wrathful dragons among us.
From New York Times • Jun. 24, 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
The lights turn her into a colossal silhouette, the music becomes unnerving, as she transforms into a wrathful messiah.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 23, 2020
He’d never seen him angry before, let alone wrathful, and it made him seem bigger somehow, an altogether different and more dangerous species of Strange than the one he had known all these years.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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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