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vengeful
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  • You're vengeful — no, you're jealous, though God knows why.†  (source)
  • I hit the dirt in a hundred sprawling postures, each time righting myself in an instant and skittering to the safety of a tree, tractor or fence, in case the horse was feeling vengeful.†  (source)
  • Even as he cried from the pain, Ender could not help but take vengeful pleasure in the murmurs he heard rising through the barracks.†  (source)
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  • The woman became nothing but a monster, vengeful and inhuman.†  (source)
  • [He makes vengefully for the shelter door]†  (source)
  • The man's eyes, however, although gray like Peter's, were those of a total stranger, filled with a hatred and a vengefulness that were almost otherworldly.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • That Jess had left her didn't seem to make a difference in my vengeful wishes.†  (source)
  • Medea: Laughing sarcastically, vengefully.†  (source)
  • I relighted it to see his lovely creations, and I saw his children tossed and torn and destroyed as though some vengefulness was at work.†  (source)
  • Their talk was always about vengeful, catastrophic politics.†  (source)
  • Remorseful food stuck vengefully in Eugene's throat.†  (source)
  • The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when they make their tormentors suffer.  (source)
    vengefulness = a desire for revenge
  • I knew I could bring out your vengeful side.†  (source)
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