Synonyms for vengeful
ˈvɛndʒ fəlvenge·ful

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1. revengeful, vindictive, vengefuladjective

   disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge

   "more vindictive than jealous love"- Shakespeare; "punishments...essentially vindictive in their nature"- M.R.Cohen

   Synonyms:
   vindictive, revengeful, spiteful, despiteful

   Antonyms:
   forgiving

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1. vengefuladjective

   Synonyms:
   VINDICTIVE, revengeful, rancorous

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1. List of paraphrases for "vengeful":

   vindictive, resentful, retaliatory, revengeful

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1. Doug Ericksen:

   Throughout this COVID situation, Jay Inslee has been out of step with the rest of the country, jay Inslee says Jay Inslee vengeful act was based on science, but it's certainly not the science understood by public health officials and elected leaders in every other state of the union.

2. Anonymous, As told in Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes:

   A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, "I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one. The grandson asked him, Which wolf will win the fight in your heart? The grandfather answered, The one I feed.

3. Thorsten J. Pattberg:

   A Greek invention, democracy is highly overrated. For starters, it never worked in Greece. The first philosophers were fascists and, even today, 2,500 years later, the 'cradle of Western civilization' remains an incompetent state. Roman emperors and a vengeful, authoritarian God are the true European success stories.

4. Avigdor Lieberman:

   I am not an vengeful man and I don't hold a grudge.

5. Candace Owens:

   Octavio Jones/Getty Images has every right to be angry, but if you stay at a place of anger, right, you are ignoring everything that is going on around you. You’re no longer looking and accessing things in the way that you should be accessing things because you’re holding on to this almost vengeful spirit, is he going to get over the trauma of the election of 2020 and begin to paint a vision for 2024 ? What is Octavio Jones/Getty Images vision for 2024 ? Is it I ’m back ? Because that’s not a vision to me. It needs to be more than, ‘ I ’m back. ’.