Sentence examples for vengefulness from inspiring English sources

Dictionary

vengefulness

noun

The state or quality of being vengeful

  • The vengefulness of the king was legendary.

Exact(58)

Southern vengefulness could make the peninsula an even more dangerous place.

It reeks of the vengefulness that has poisoned Pakistani politics.

This minority viewpoint is little heard in America these days, and a voice of caution and restraint may be valuable in a polity so indignant that at times it risks descent into vengefulness and jingoism.

By making his historical scholarship the handmaiden of a vitriolic vengefulness, Mr Finkelstein overplays his hand and ultimately diminishes the impact of his case.

His aggressiveness and vengefulness created many enemies and involved him in numerous intrigues.

His political life, characterised by begrudgery, vengefulness and a sense of thwarted entitlement, ended on a note of magnanimity.

In a pub, a mob of viewers is moved from titillated vengefulness to pity and then to self-recrimination, appalled by the experience of witnessing what they'd longed to see.

Only the future President is exactly what he seemed to be: calm, determined, a little aloof, immune to the snares of anger or vengefulness.

In it, the Fort Lee traffic jam was mentioned as just one of many cases (and, I have to admit, not the one that stayed with me) of vengefulness so petty that it inescapably called to mind the American President who incarnated that quality, and was brought down by it.

It was as if S.D.S. had seized power in Washington in 1968 and Mark Rudd, Abbie Hoffman, Jane Fonda, and two or three ambitious renegade generals were all suddenly trying to run the country, while their followers smoked pot and played Jefferson Airplane records, oscillating between a vague, messianic utopianism and a baleful, apocalyptic vengefulness.

Her loving husband, meanwhile, becomes, in the service of Azad Kashmir, an embodiment of Muslim fury and vengefulness, a monomaniacal killing machine.

Show more...

Ludwig, your English writing platform

Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.

Student

Used by millions of students, scientific researchers, professional translators and editors from all over the world!

MitStanfordHarvardAustralian Nationa UniversityNanyangOxford

Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak quote

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak

CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com

Get started for free

Unlock your writing potential with Ludwig

Letters

Most frequent sentences: