Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a vengeful manner: vindictively.
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- adverb In a
vengeful manner;vindictively , or done invengeance .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a vindictive, revengeful manner
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Examples
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The MIB had just committed a heinous crime and Jacob vengefully forced him down into the pit.
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In his novel A Single Man, filmed by Tom Ford last year, Isherwood perhaps vengefully kills off the hero's much younger lover.
Christopher Isherwood remembered: 'Chris always loved young men, and I was certainly young' Peter Conrad 2010
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I said vengefully, uttering his worst fears aloud.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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I said vengefully, uttering his worst fears aloud.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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Jake has been offering his friend sex education for years, helpfully carving an apple as a guide to female genitalia it's no accident that Stanley is seen vengefully chomping on an apple and spitting out its pips in the second half.
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They've allowed me to vengefully un-follow dozens of Twits who had either given up on the ADHD social networking service.
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They've allowed me to vengefully un-follow dozens of Twits who had either given up on the ADHD social networking service.
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Her lumps, having remained dormant for four years, sprouted vengefully back.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Barack Obama came into office and pretty much signaled that vengefully going after Bush or Cheney wasn't going to be a big priority with him.
Chris Weigant: Dec. '09 Obama Poll Watch -- Below Fifty, But Stabilizing 2010
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To defend this turf from criticisms, competing ideas and points of views are ignored and the jugular of the dissenter vengefully slashed at.
The New Intolerance 2010
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