Sample Sentences for
vengeful
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    Now the vengeful urge no longer had sure footing.  (source)
    vengeful = desire to take revenge
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    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)
    vengeful = a desire for revenge
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    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)
    vengeful = with a desire for revenge
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    You're vengeful — no, you're jealous, though God knows why.  (source)
    vengeful = full of desire for revenge
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    [He makes vengefully for the shelter door]†  (source)
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    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.
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    There are hurtful, vengeful spirits layin' hands on these children.†  (source)
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    Remorseful food stuck vengefully in Eugene's throat.†  (source)
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    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
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    Even as the angry, vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them.†  (source)
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    (vengefully) Den I'll be de one to smash de glass†  (source)
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    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)
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    A forgotten son, a vengeful mother, a brother with a long shadow, a strange mutation.†  (source)
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