Sentence examples for were vengeful from inspiring English sources
adjective
Vindictive or wanting vengeance.
- His chains now broken, the prisoner turned a vengeful eye toward his former captors.
Still, Sprewell said the Nets were vengeful when playing the Knicks last season.
They had been screwed and they were vengeful, and they saw the confusion and untidiness of the business as an obstacle to good work.
Many were vengeful and their quests linear, but the best by far were inexplicable, elemental and feral creatures, peripheral horrors that were never fully glimpsed, and could neither be explained nor placated.
To those who never saw it, or saw it and hated it, Dynasty may seem like a relic of a ferociously money-obsessed and politically bankrupt decade (the only poor people who ever appeared were vengeful butlers or put-upon chauffeurs), but at the time it was as popular and powerful a piece of escapism as Downton Abbey is today.
Reski offers loose sketches of this underworld's characters: a defector who described the lure of status that sold him on a life of crime; a Carmelite priest who delivered absolution to criminals; Mafia wives as "self-sacrificing as they were vengeful".
Instead of being vengeful, he is courtly.
This business should not be vengeful".
She can be vengeful, ecstatic, pitiful.
To be vengeful against them is wrong.
Some of the language was vengeful.
