as in vindictive
likely to seek revenge
a vengeful person never lets go of a grudge
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Recent Examples of vengeful
Along the way, he's also got to contend with a vengeful FBI agent and the political aspirations of an old foe now running for governor.
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Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Nov. 2025
Last Rites loosely tackles the story of the Smurls, a family haunted by a vengeful demon.
—Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2025
The season premiere introduced us to Isabelle, who is launching a vengeful campaign to dominate Parisian society after Valmont's betrayal.
—Billie Melissa, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Nov. 2025
This masterful horror novel about a vengeful vampire who stalks a reservation is told through interviews which gives it a spine-tingling realism.
—Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 13 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vengeful
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Meanwhile, in Oxford, Mississippi, an equally giddy and slightly more vindictive fanbase had all of about 30 minutes to celebrate their team’s win.—
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Who is not petty or vindictive.—
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Brian Heil played Don Jose with angst and ultimately, revengeful rage as Carmen’s spurned lover.—
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This latest installment finds the Sully family grieving one of their own when a new threat emerges in the form of the Fire tribe, an antagonistic group of Na’vi volcano-dwellers led by the revengeful Varang (Oona Chaplin in her franchise debut).—
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The forest had taught him that city dwellers could often be regulated by cruel and rather unpredictable codes.—
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That Maduro is a cruel dictator is clear; that Trump intends more than just his arrest (such as taking their oil) is equally clear.—
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Officials charged Damon Leanord of Pleasanton, Kansas, with interference with law enforcement, having a vicious dog at large and criminal desecration of a body in Linn County and abandonment of a corpse charges in Bates County, Missouri, after finding the child’s body at the bottom of a creek bed.—
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He was shocked in 2013 when he was struck by vicious bouts of vomiting.—
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The best way to safeguard yourself from malicious links that install malware, potentially accessing your private information, is to have strong antivirus software installed on all your devices.—
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And at the heart of the series was the parasitic dynamic between Pine and his delightfully malicious foe, an arms dealer named Richard Onslow Roper (Hugh Laurie).—
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Thompson, meanwhile, savors every contemptuous glare and hateful retort Anna regularly supplies.—
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At best, both Labour and the Conservatives have spent political capital on an activist who has repeatedly expressed thoughtless and hateful views in public.—
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Skepticism came easily to Trump, who had long been hostile to mainstream foreign policy.—
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The helicopter the pilot was flying — a heavy, twin-rotor MH-47 Chinook — was struck by hostile fire during the operation.—
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Angel went for a respectful middle-of-the-road jab — complimenting her parenting and resilience, but maligning her for being petty.—
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Who is not petty or vindictive.—
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“Vengeful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vengeful. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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