What's the difference between furious and wrathful?

Furious


Definition:

  • (a.) Transported with passion or fury; raging; violent; as, a furious animal.
  • (a.) Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence; as, a furious stream; a furious wind or storm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You have to prove there is a need.” Brian, a researcher with a PhD in medical science, was shocked and furious to find himself driven to food banks after a car accident, marital breakdown and sudden unemployment left him without enough money to live on.
  • (2) Far from being depressed, the audience turned into a heaving mass of furious geeks, who roared their anger and vowed that they would not rest until they had brought down the rotten system The "skeptic movement" (always spelt with "k" by the way, to emphasise their distinctiveness) had come to Singh's aid.
  • (3) This was greeted by a furious wall of sound from Labour, which only grew when he added: "The last government failed to prioritise compassionate care … they tried to shut down the whistleblowers …" It was pure party-political point-scoring, matched in spades by Labour's Andy Burnham.
  • (4) When Barak reneged on his commitment to transfer the three Jerusalem villages - a commitment he had specifically authorised Clinton to convey to Arafat - Clinton was furious.
  • (5) April 2011: A furious Spurs launch judicial review of the decision , while Leyton Orient also launch a High Court challenge.
  • (6) Photograph: Fabio De Paola Thomas Howarth: student, Derby "There's this perception that you've got to be furiously depressed and lonely to listen to the Smiths," says Thomas Howarth, 18, from Derby.
  • (7) Beijing is furious at the Nobel committee's decision to give the award to Liu, who is serving an 11-year sentence for incitement to subversion for co-authoring Charter 08, an appeal for democratic reforms.
  • (8) However, at the time, he was furious that the Danish text which the US had received advance information about, had been leaked to the Guardian .
  • (9) China is furious at the decision to recognise Liu, jailed for incitement to subvert state power after co-authoring a call for democratic reforms.
  • (10) The electorate is furious - from members getting wives, partners and relatives on the parliamentary payroll to expense claims for duck houses, flipping and servants quarters."
  • (11) And to suggest that this isn't going to affect his job as a minister - he's not going to be taken seriously by the home secretary, who I understand is absolutely furious about his appointment.
  • (12) There are two fantasies about the British countryside that were given ample play in last week's furious debates about the rights and wrongs of building there.
  • (13) A furious David Cameron forced to him to stand down at the last general election.
  • (14) A furious row has broken out among local politicians over a proposal to build a nuclear waste dump in Kent.
  • (15) Despite MacMaster's assertion "I do not believe that I have harmed anyone", activists were furious.
  • (16) In 2015, Pence signed an anti-LGBT bill opponents said would allow wide-scale discrimination, kicking off a furious and costly boycott of the state by much of corporate America.
  • (17) The mayor is a good person, but no one invited him, certainly not officially … The pope was furious.” While the prank provided fodder to critics of the mayor, it also underscored a more serious issue between the Vatican and Rome just a few months ahead of the church’s jubilee year of mercy, which begins on 8 December.
  • (18) Red Sox manager John Farrell immediately and furiously made his way from the dugout to contest the decision.
  • (19) In tracts and treatises they furiously debated such issues as the nature of man, the powers of God, and the true path to salvation.
  • (20) Delivering ultimatums is a sorry way to go about a ministry, but we will hang on by our fingertips, sad and furious in equal measure, until the authority of women and men is accepted by the church we love but, at times like this, find impossible to defend.

Wrathful


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of wrath; very angry; greatly incensed; ireful; passionate; as, a wrathful man.
  • (a.) Springing from, or expressing, wrath; as, a wrathful countenance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Our members have had to bear the brunt of the passengers’ wrath, because the senior executives and staff went running for cover,” he said.
  • (2) "I take complete responsibility and offer nothing but love and contrition and I hope that now Jonathan and the BBC will endure less forensic wrath.
  • (3) Revolutionary forces also distributed leaflets at checkpoints leading into the city that read, "Dear Muslims, avoid God's wrath.
  • (4) We believe that there is a connection between those who traffic the children to Italy and those who employ them at the markets, so we are planning an investigation to establish these links.” The fear of their families facing the wrath of the traffickers is driving some to find quicker ways of repaying their debt.
  • (5) That means transcending their own need for status and recognition, facing the wrath of those seeking to maintain the status quo and doing what they know in their hearts to be right.
  • (6) Addressing the crowd, communist party leader Aleka Papariga warned that whatever government emerged in the coming days would face the wrath of the people if it dared to pass more belt-tightening measures.
  • (7) This would blow their chance to dismantle the signature policy achievement of the Obama presidency, leaving them facing the wrath of constituents and potential trouble at the ballot box.
  • (8) Sandwood Bay in Scotland Photograph: Alamy Am Buachaille, a rocky sea stack, stood guard-like to one side, the giant grey slabs which cut into the sea were bathed in frothing waves, and the dim glow of the Cape Wrath lighthouse sent out a muted white beam beyond the cliffs to my right.
  • (9) Adding to controversy, an MP caused an uproar after by telling parliament alcohol and revealing uniforms should be banned from all Malaysian flights to avoid "Allah's wrath".
  • (10) It’s a part of the American epic immortalised in John Steinbeck’s bitter novel, The Grapes of Wrath .
  • (11) Nick Clegg's MPs are already nervous about the wrath of voters and party members who will protest that they didn't support the Lib Dems for this.
  • (12) A leading Greek bishop has warned lawmakers that they risk incurring the wrath of God – and will be excommunicated – if they vote in favour of legalising same-sex partnerships.
  • (13) On the way back, in his speech to the Commons, he had to appease the wrath of Nick Clegg and show his government's credentials to Europe.
  • (14) 10.50am GMT Pro-Moris rally Morsi has incurred the wrath of many lawyers - some of whom are striking - by issuing the decree granting him widespread powers and simultaneously curbing those of the judiciary.
  • (15) cricketed Gatsby is one of the great books of the 20th century but you can't give just one novel the distinction of " Great American novel " because at different points in time that could be applied to many different books, including To Kill A Mockingbird , Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , The Catcher in the Rye, The Grapes of Wrath ; Gatsby isn't even Fitzgerald's best work: go read This Side of Paradise and Tender is the Night.
  • (16) This could go back to being desert, the way it was before irrigation.” Many farmers are descendants of migrants who fled here to escape the 1930s dust bowl, a trauma immortalised in John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath.
  • (17) He directed the paper through choppy waters in its relationship with the Bush administration, earning the then president's wrath with a steady stream of scoops on the US government's use of phone tapping and torture.
  • (18) In normal circumstances, this would incur the wrath of those papers.
  • (19) David Cameron will risk the wrath of the drinks industry and free marketeers today by announcing his government is to introduce legislation setting a minimum alcohol price of 40p a unit in England – enough to add £135 to the annual bill of a heavy drinker.
  • (20) "No one should die in sin … This must be taken into consideration: we cannot stop Allah's wrath."

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