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vengeful

/venj-fuhl/US // ˈvɛndʒ fəl //UK // (ˈvɛndʒfʊl) //

复仇的,报复性的,复仇,报复性

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : desiring or seeking vengeance; vindictive: a vengeful attitude.
    • : characterized by or showing a vindictive spirit: vengeful intentions.
    • : serving to inflict vengeance: a vengeful killing.

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Examples

  • The state will argue, Leitess said, that Ramos was a vengeful narcissist who believed he was smarter than everyone else.

  • That depends on your flour, the ambient humidity and, I believe, whether the pie gods are feeling vengeful.

  • Gone is her psychotic look and her murderous, vengeful hatred for everything around her.

  • So, better an angry, vengeful, mean God, who punishes a nation because some in it are having sex, than no God at all.

  • In certain storylines, illegal industrial pollution is just as much a villain as the vengeful monsters it creates.

  • Those who claim to speak for a vengeful Allah take great delight in smashing idols wherever and whenever they can get to them.

  • Indeed, once the fire-engine house was taken, everybody seemed impressed by John Brown, rather than infuriated or vengeful.

  • This is part the judgmental aestheticism of my mother hovering in my consciousness like a vengeful Jewish Yoda.

  • These continued to be represented by their attendants, who executed a deity's stern and vengeful decrees.

  • Similarly in Babylonia the fragments of this class of literature which survive deal mainly with wicked and vengeful demons.

  • Trymore and Pringle, goading their horses frantically, were doing their utmost to get away from their vengeful comrades.

  • He did smile, a vengeful smile, as he thought of the trouble the black brute had put him to, with the chagrin it had caused him.

  • The agency that caused all these to be supplied—crafty, cruel, vengeful—may readily be guessed at.