All 3 Uses of
vengeful
in
Catch-22
- He was a glowering, vengeful, disillusioned Indian who hated foreigners with names like Cathcart, Korn, Black and Havermeyer and wished they'd all go back to where their lousy ancestors had come from.†
Chpt 5 *
- Vengeful neighbors had shaved her hair to the gleaming bone because she had slept with Germans.†
Chpt 22
- …in the sky when he hungered to be demoted again to a wing plane with a loaded machine gun in the compartment instead of the precision bombsight that he really had no need for, a powerful, heavy fifty-caliber machine gun he could seize vengefully in both hands and turn loose savagely against all the demons tyrannizing him: at the smoky black puffs of the flak itself; at the German antiaircraft gunners below whom he could not even see and could not possibly harm with his machine…†
Chpt 30
Definition:
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(vengeful) wanting to punish someone for causing harm