How To Use Vengeful In A Sentence

Rules exist to be violated, so that the ‘bastard’ may be more violently characterized and the audience engaged in revengeful fury.
In the end the keeners stalked the funeral processions screaming and shrieking all the more like vengeful banshees and had to be chased by the priests.
The author went from from a condemning avengeful God to a milch toast, permissive parent who forgives all offenses AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
Kids, who are circumstantial outsiders, tend to identify with such creatures and envision them as their vengeful protectors.
The Yellow Emperor speaks of revengeful retaliation.

For know that I am proud and revengeful and lascivious, and I prate even as thou.
There is one fact which no one can misunderstand, the while -- that after the defections under which you have suffered, and under your known want of military stores, an incursive war from the mountains appears ferocious -- both revengeful and cruel -- when every one knows that time will render it unnecessary. The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance
Her strongest character traits are, in about this order, heroic courage; wrath; vengefulness; envy; and cattiness.
At different moments in Jez Butterworth's play Jerusalem, the noted Shakespearean Mark Rylance sports a pickelhaube the spiked emblem of Great War-era German militarism, a knit cap with satanic-looking triangular points, and a searing cross burned into his back by vengeful hooligans. Eamon Murphy: Theater Review: Jerusalem
Even Winston Churchill, then the minister responsible, was shocked by the action of some trigger-happy pilots and vengeful ground troops.
But do you not agree we put the wrong emphasis on this if we try and impersonalize it and then get people incited so that they'll maybe act in a vengeful way? CNN Transcript Oct 18, 2007
Speaking of vengeful robot rock, you need to go see Captured by Robots!
The vengeful squadron leader ignored the plea and shouted over the comm.
It depends on how vengeful you feel and how much hassle you are ready for. The Sun
But the two must avoid the vengeful pimp Guido and keep their customers happy.
It is undoubtedly a good thing that we are neither cruel nor vengeful.
It's been around forever, and, frankly, the same complaint could apply to virtually all vengeful ghost stories.
The quick cuts make the film seem more episodic than it need be, with each ‘episode’ focusing on one or two vengeful acts.
I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.
The vengeful tackle on Haaland 16 months ago during a Manchester derby was as bad as they come, the sort that ends careers.
This change in terminology is not intended to be hostile or vengeful, though such reactions would not seem unwarranted at this point, but it would serve two clear purposes: An Illustrated Guide : The Lovecraft News Network
So how does she tend to react when she's feeling vengeful? Times, Sunday Times
This is a tempting tactic, for it holds out the promise of vengeful satisfaction.
In Arzner's subtly altered version, Rosalind Russell's obsessive Harriet is a chilling yet mesmerising figure, and in low-angle shots and mannish attire, looms as majestic and vengeful as a modern-day Medea.
Lynch wrote a notoriously vengeful poem, full of vicious curses, a story he tells against himself in shamefaced penance.
Then he wrote War Wolf, a satire in which a returning veteran afflicted with dioxin poisoning becomes a vengeful Communist werewolf. ABSOLUTE ZERO
She told him the tale of a wealthy merchant who was taken captive by a vengeful jinni and condemned to die. Old Tales That Still Seduce
Once brought under control by the mahouts, it lumbered across the river - this time to a fusillade of stones and rotting fruit thrown by the now vengeful onlookers.
For a second her mind broke free of the constraints of logic, imagining playful pixies and marauding dragons; captured princesses and vengeful princes.
Langs (1974 stated emphatically that the failure to share a preordained termination leads to “overintense, paranoid-like, rageful and vengeful fantasies, which are based on the sense of betrayal, “because the therapist has compromised himself and no longer invites trust” (p. Clinical Work with Adolescents
It seemed personal, even vengeful, the way these things rushed up at you.
The poor actress overacts excruciatingly as the vengefully posh blueblood.
He did not think he was any more cruel, any more vengeful than other men.
The spectre of Thomas's brutal occupation is always there to hint that he could use his skills for vengeful justice.
Yellow eyes glowing vengefully, his expression was hooded, dark and menacing.
Most who disclose revengeful motives marry the punishment that follows.
He noticed the large water fountain in the middle and felt a little vengeful.
Trailing fingers are terminals which ignite living flames, and the propeller of the little boat creates an avengeful commotion of light which trails far astern. Tropic Days
Those of Cherie's friends who do talk insist that she is generous, warm-hearted, dependable, but they are also keenly aware that she has demonstrated repeatedly that she is a vengeful ex.
The Christian god is a three headed monster, cruel, vengeful and capricious.
Maybe about how it takes the spinner's motivations and turns the fiber into either trash or treasure: greed spinning silk into rusty wire slubbed with rotten straw, laziness spinning wool into a beautiful but useless cobweb thread that disintigrates when touched, vengefulness turning flax into coarse rope no matter how delicately spun, love turning nettles into the smoothest silken cord, selflessness making the spinner's own hair into the finest silver-wrapped silk. Spinning with glass.
Sket" sites, where pictures of girls are posted by vengeful ex-boyfriends, often in compromising situations, are set up on Facebook and other networking sites, or the images are circulated on smart phone messaging systems, along with a request to give marks out of 10 for the "sket" or "bitch". Teenage domestic violence: 'No one did anything to stop it'
Was it dumped by the vengeful wife of a music maestro whose marriage hit a sour note, some wondered. Times, Sunday Times
They buy a thing that is plainly too big for a pocket and are bewildered, baffled, betrayed and vengeful when the pocket fights back. Times, Sunday Times
She will never reach the age when the tumults of young adulthood can be looked back upon with rueful sympathy and without anger and vengefulness.
Mostly everybody thought this was hilarious; they fell against their lockers, crippled by laughter that spread like a disease as Annie the Bird or Bear walked by, neighing like a dying, vengeful creature. The Adults
Caught in the vamp-vs.-werewolf standoff between the Salvatore bros and the vengeful Jules with hunky new Brady as her hench-wolf, poor Caroline is shot in the head, trapped in a cage and repeatedly shot, sprayed and tortured by Caleb until novice were-teen Tyler is delivered. Matt's TV Week in Review
But the more seriously the sovereignty of Whitehall is challenged, the more vengeful the state becomes.
This vengeful ghost has damaged attractions, vandalized shops and has driven away the park patrons.
An angry and vengeful young teenager wanted the power to avenge a father murdered by Orcs.
Devotion to the Muses, that wiser Princes Patron the Arts, and carry an indulgent aspect unto Scholars; but a desire to have their names eternized by the memory of their writings, and a fear of the revengeful Pen of succeeding ages; for these are the men, that, when they have played their parts, and had their exits, must step out and give the moral of their Religio Medici
She had accepted what she was long ago - a demon, a vengeful spirit - a hungry ghost.
Soon it became exciting, the thrill of doing something that we could get into trouble for and for me it was a revengeful out cry towards my parents, especially my father.
He stumbled with vengeful intent through wide, open-topped courtyards and along covered, low-ceilinged walkways.
They buy a thing that is plainly too big for a pocket and are bewildered, baffled, betrayed and vengeful when the pocket fights back. Times, Sunday Times
Diana Ross, Dustin Hoffman, Woody Allen and Diane Keaton, Barbara Streisand and more, all were on hand to see Ali regain the title he'd lost at the hands not of any athletic opponent, but a vengeful government. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Something weird and cultish in the sycophantish cathexis onto Hillary of the many nerds, geeks and vengeful viragos who run her campaign... "Something weird and cultish in the sycophantish cathexis onto Hillary of the many nerds, geeks and vengeful viragos who run her campaign..."
Byron's vengeful wife, tired of his infidelities with both men and women, accused him of sleeping with his own sister.
I can see why the writer/direct put this into the movie though because it serves to give us a moment where the ROLES ARE REVERSED suddenly kirk is the moral one and Spock still pissed about his mother’s murder is revengeful and says that he wouldn’t have extended a helping hand to the villain. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 582
The Hawiye clan, which dominates the rebel group currently threatening Mr Barre, is not thought to be vengeful.
Finally it arrived last Friday, the week after the avengeful, Jos massacre. Vanguard
The language of vainglory, of indignation, pity and revengefulness, optative: but of the desire to know, there is a peculiar expression called interrogative; as, What is it, when shall it, how is it done, and why so? Leviathan
Testament patriarch is replaced in Paër by the father as a forgiving Christ-figure, a shepherd seeking his lost lambs, not a vengeful diety. Talking About Virtue: Paisiello's 'Nina,' Paër's 'Agnese,' and the Sentimental Ethos
Hollywood and the music industry paints young people and guns as a dangerous mix - slow thinking, revengeful, thrill-seeking - a combination of hip gangster and Billy the Kid.
Then did I see," Abu-Keshot concluded, "that, although judgment was in strictness with this revengeful tailor, yet the world is not built upon justice alone. The Breakfast of the Birds, and Other Stories
People do not have to accept a jealous, revengeful God who destroys enemies, kills women and children, and imposes punishment on generations.
Turning on the shower until the water was steaming hot, and the spray felt like needles, Deb stepped inside, and let the murderous, revengeful feelings scour her.
She moves plausibly from girlish complicity in her half-brother's fantasies to vengeful grief.
With a pleasantly vengeful fury, as if performing a valuable task, we pursued every last component with our mallets until we had pulverized it into unrecognizability.
The vengeful Tartars stage a surprise night raid on Temujin's camp.
But tobacco is a wily and vengeful beast, and one not disposed to look kindly on those who jilt him.
But is he really free or does the vengeful puppet master continue to control his daily movements? Times, Sunday Times
Also he was a vengeful man, threatening to physically punish anyone who withstood him ( v 23 ).
And if he does believe it, is he not aware that he is propagating a pernicious myth of an avengeful Christian stereotype, that is as abhorrent as any other religious or racial stereotype? 'The Incomprehensible Holocaust': An Exchange
Rather, the old testament looks like their text, with its vengeful God, its tribal bloodbaths and its focus on the Israelites.
What will be his anguish, should you fall into the hands of the furious man whose love you have rejected; when it will no longer be in the power of a parent to preserve your person from the outrages of his eager and avengeful passion! The Scottish Chiefs
Those often led the parties, honestly but mistakenly, to reinterpret the past in self-exculpatory or vengeful terms. Times, Sunday Times
After suffering their heaviest defeat in more than a decade losing 54-0 to Diggers, fourth-placed Roan should be in revengeful mood against Ndola Wanderers.
I'm afraid that if I ever saw my annihilator and his friends again, they'd gang up on me and insist that he's innocent and that I'm just being vengeful. Speak-out Diary Entry
Sam is further wedged between the addictive scheming of Felix's bride-to-be Marjorie, and the vengeful counterplotting of his long-jilted mother Gloria.
I've always thought of hangovers as alcohol's vengeful older brother.
When nations intervene, manipulating grief, they offer idolatrous, nationalistic, vengeful substitutions for the grace of God and true community.
Terms like goddess, Kali and destroyer mingle freely in reinforcing this cult of vengeful violence.
This bizarre physical configuration — the direct result of "Winnie's" vengeful cartological pen (for a full account of Matar's creation, see David Vremkin's magisterial history, Let's Put Iraq Here, and Lebanon Over Here: The Making of the Modern Middle East) — left King Tallulah, of the neighboring, landlocked country Wasabia, with no choice but to make a deal with the emir of Matar. Florence of Arabia (Part II)
He was "ill farrant," and revengeful – ready to fight, but not ready to forgive. That Lass o' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story
The problem is, he is an old vengeful screwhead in a medium of old vengeful screwheads so exactly what he adds to the mix is unknown to me. The Chimes at Midnight
Starbuck and Ahab almost communicate with each other as the first mate pleads with Ahab to repudiate this vengeful mission.
Fleeing vengeful fans, he finds refuge in the grungiest corner of professional football, the Italian National Football League as quarterback of the inept but full-of-heart Parma Panthers. John Grisham's Playing for Pizza Being Adapted « FirstShowing.net
Playing a psychotic once again in Cape Fear in 1991, De Niro was frightfully convincing as the vengeful convict.
Purane Es is half mindless, vengeful jerk and half romantic poet who is forced to obey his father’s wishes. Archive 2009-04-01
Not for an instant did the roar diminish, not for a second was the kindly veil of night left unrent by a fissure of vengeful flame. The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 12) The War Begins, Invasion of Belgium, Battle of the Marne
The welcoming "I make my own damson preserve!" sparkle in Frances's eyes is snuffed out, replaced by the cold, vengeful stare of Steven Seagal in Hard To Kill. Grace Dent's TV OD: Three In A Bed
The plot line about the vengeful Temple merchants seeking Jesus' death has been removed.
Who knew band nerds could be such a hostile, even revengeful and aggressive, group?
The review emphasized not only the violence in the plot — a vengeful search that "gets [Powell] blackjacked by energetic Argentine patriots, slugged by Fascist conspirators and mixed up in one of the most brutal beatings ever filmed" — but also the behind-the-scenes details of the fight itself, which suggested that Powell was a tough guy both on and off the set: Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
The house burned because the cook tumped over a pan of hot lard, which exploded; or a vengeful ex-slave lit a piece of fat wood under the house and fed the fire with the last bottle of old Madeira that George Washington Gilbert, a drinking Methodist, had brought from Carolina; or Sister Mary, who was always cold-natured, stood too close to the parlor hearth at her wedding and set her veil on fire. Dream State
Could the devil be working through the revengeful gravedigger, or had the wine master simply added too many chemicals by mistake?
Osyth is a passionate and vengeful protectress who vehemently defends the material interests of herself and her faithful, holding out to the audience the prospect of celestial help in the redress of terrestrial wrongs.
From this position, and from her icy , cruel and vengeful personality, Ysanne earned the nickname Iceheart.
The most revengeful way to humiliate a family against whom disputes are pending is to subject the womenfolk in that family to crimes that rob them of their honour and dignity and bring them disrepute.
Once this revengeful act was done, Aegisthus crowned himself king of Argos with Clytaemnestra as his queen.
It is well known that vengeful ex-cons have hunted down the cops who busted them.
I spotted one spelling error - the excellent Serbian word inat is given as iant - and there may be others, but I will not be consumed by vengeful spite over it; also I imagine there is room for interpretation of some of the definitions, such as the 10 Albanian ways of describing a moustache, which to be do not seem very different from the ways we describe different moustaches in English. Stephen Fry and Poland; and Communism
The most revengeful way to humiliate a family against whom disputes are pending is to subject the womenfolk in that family to crimes that rob them of their honour and dignity and bring them disrepute.
She could almost hear some revengeful opponent state triumphantly ‘Checkmate,’ as the neat graph of her life crumbled.
Those of Cherie's friends who do talk insist that she is generous, warm-hearted, dependable, but they are also keenly aware that she has demonstrated repeatedly that she is a vengeful ex.
This, to us, was a moment fraught with extreme peril — not knowing friend from foe, and instantly apprehensive of the knives and arrows of the avengeful throng. ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE
But isn't the vengefulness part of Shylock inextinguishable humanity?
The whole episode made me vengeful.
Holly Hunter makes her British stage debut, playing a vengeful woman returning to rural Ireland.
She had not liked what Miss Wilmot had had to say on the subject of being revengeful and dishonourable. CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL
Aside from the stylish Huma Abedin, there's definitely something weird and cultish in the sycophantish cathexis onto Hillary of the many nerds, geeks and vengeful viragos who run her campaign -- sometimes to her detriment, as with the recent ham-handed playing of the clichéd gender card. "Something weird and cultish in the sycophantish cathexis onto Hillary of the many nerds, geeks and vengeful viragos who run her campaign..."
When he was a boy he was always violent and revengeful.
As a result, Langley has a revengeful trait of character and a mercenary streak.
The vengeful parent is consumed by a kind of amorous hatred of both the former spouse and the once shared, now torn, child. Divorce, American Style
I took vengeful joy in the smattering of boos that underlaid the applause, though.
Thunder and lightning, therefore, could be viewed either as the voice of the vengeful prophet chasing demons or as the precursor of rain for thirsty crops.
Maybe a vengeful sibling of some deadhead kid who decided to try and abuse a program I had a hand in?
She sprayed red paint all over his car in one last vengeful act before leaving him for good.
Even if her voice could do with more modulations of tone, she performs with great assurance, shifting from vengeful fury to sudden vulnerability with total plausibility. Death and the Maiden – review
A Libya in part or whole under the Gadhafi clan would be a failed, isolated and dangerous place ruled by a vengeful tyrant and a likely abettor of terrorists. Obama's Libyan Abdication
Was it dumped by the vengeful wife of a music maestro whose marriage hit a sour note, some wondered. Times, Sunday Times
God in the Old Testament of the Bible is a vengeful, jealous God that smites those who disobey him.
Nationalism, on the other hand, tends to express itself in authoritarianism, emotionalism, personalism, vengefulness and mean-spiritedness.
It depends on how vengeful you feel and how much hassle you are ready for. The Sun
And sources said the vengeful wife pressed charges when told her husband was found alone with the teacher. The Sun
Though the mystical element is rather missing from his character here, Adès paints Prospero as a wonderfully vengeful mage.
If you converse with those that despise and injure you, strengthen yourself against impatient, revengeful pride.
Clearly there is something in the human soul that loves these vengeful pursuits of purity. Times, Sunday Times
For many Westerners with a Biblical upbringing, the term wrathful deity carries the connotation of an almighty being with righteous vengeful anger. Making Sense of Tantra �� 5 Tantric Imagery
Perversely, such words of steel were meant to calm the American people, not whip them into a vengeful fervour.
Mohammed Atta and Ayman al-Zawahiri were bred in the tyrannical republic of Hosni Mubarak.Zawahiri, the vengeful Cairene aristocrat, was explicit about that.
It depends on how vengeful you feel and how much hassle you are ready for. The Sun
He was "ill-farrant," and revengeful, -- ready to fight, but not ready to forgive. That Lass O' Lowrie's 1877
Her virtues notwithstanding, the Abyssinian is usually of a spiteful, revengeful disposition, and when she flies into a temper goes beyond the limits not only of moderation but of decency. Memoirs of an Arabian Princess
As a species, we're too territorial, short-tempered and vengeful for traffic to flow.
Unhappily for titular lead Kevin James and his fellow cast members, I suspect the highest and lowest beasts on the food chain would review the very hindquarters off it, in a wild and vengeful feeding frenzy, fiercely brandishing every last claw, tusk, talon and tooth. Zookeeper is a strange animal - a kids' movie for none of the family
He felt quite guilty for these revengeful thoughts, but in the end concluded that the severe humbling would do her good.
It's a standard little curse, useful for revenge or blackmail — but in this case, the wizard had been feeling particularly vengeful, and had booby-trapped the spell, linking it to some very complicated wizardry we couldn't be bothered untangling for any price the victim could pay, so that we couldn't use the usual countercharm. The Misenchanted Sword
I arouse the indolent, dissipate the winds, and appease the avengeful. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1884
That, perhaps, was the most insidious element of Cheneyism, with its push to vocalise bloodlust and irrational vengefulness and make it part of everyday political discourse. wiley Says: Matthew Yglesias » The Real Torture Debate
Diana Ross, Dustin Hoffman, Woody Allen and Diane Keaton, Barbara Streisand and more, all were on hand to see Ali regain the title he'd lost at the hands not of any athletic opponent, but a vengeful government. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Lynch wrote a notoriously vengeful poem, full of vicious curses, a story he tells against himself in shamefaced penance.
From what we see, Clare has an intuitive sympathy with children, while Mrs Trevel, far from being a bearer of hidden wisdom, is actually a vengeful harpy.
Atop a prancing palomino gelding sat a woman, neither old nor young, her face set in a vengeful expression. PAINT THE WIND
The Romans, intuitively, seemed to know better, for they named it after the goddess they feared for her vengefulness, capriciousness and cruelty.
But I do think he is a man who bears a grudge, who is a man who is vindictive and revengeful and, I have to say, so does Mr Burton.…
There was a new light in his eye that Adriane had never seen, a vengeful, vicious emotion.
With hindsight it all seemed more vengeful than petulant. Times, Sunday Times
If I ask God to punish my enemy with vengeful prayers,then He is fair to allow the enemy to do the same for me. Toba Beta
A woman from the Dalit or formerly Untouchable castes , she is admired for her courage and persistence but also feared for her vengefulness.
Maybe I don't have anything to be revengeful about, Namiel thought.
Is it wrong that I find myself wanting to kill a monkey out of vengeful jealousy?
That letter is a vengeful, malicious lie, and I have the emails to prove it.
Imagine then how easy it would be to become bitter, resentful, contemptuous, angry and revengeful?
This is a crusade in the service of the divinity of capital, a vengeful, jealous god before which no other god may stand.
They buy a thing that is plainly too big for a pocket and are bewildered, baffled, betrayed and vengeful when the pocket fights back. Times, Sunday Times
But I think the real breakthrough film probably was Adrian Lyne's 1987 "Fatal Attraction," which presented Glenn Close as an attractive, but fiercely vengeful modern woman, paying a man back for loving her and leaving her.
Then he wrote War Wolf, a satire in which a returning veteran afflicted with dioxin poisoning becomes a vengeful Communist werewolf. ABSOLUTE ZERO
Althouse: "Something weird and cultish in the sycophantish cathexis onto Hillary of the many nerds, geeks and vengeful viragos who run her campaign... "Something weird and cultish in the sycophantish cathexis onto Hillary of the many nerds, geeks and vengeful viragos who run her campaign..."
Despite some intervention by the Interior Department, most of the Corps' vengeful provisions were still intact.
Vindictive, unforgiving and revengeful, Susan did her utmost to make certain the only other woman remaining in the contest wouldn't win.
The Euripides story tells of a young and prudish king who tries to stop a vengeful God and his band of tutu-clad Bacchae from corrupting the women of his kingdom - including his own mother, Agave.
Clearly there is something in the human soul that loves these vengeful pursuits of purity. Times, Sunday Times
Attack of the 50-Foot Baby is a set of nesting, stacking cardboard boxes for your toddler to stack up and smash like a vengeful, pudgy, be-diapered goddess. Boing Boing
They would stop to admire the begonia pots, take pictures of the walls that had been the scenes of the vengeful executions … brigades of workers had carefully erased the bullet marks. 10 of the best books set in Barcelona

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