(n.) Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an offense; retribution; -- often, in a bad sense, passionate or unrestrained revenge.
(n.) Harm; mischief.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fall of a tyrant is usually the cause of popular rejoicing followed by public vengeance.
(2) But within a few months, the disease came back with a vengeance and killed.
(3) In one way they were right to state the obvious – because Celtic were utter plod at the back – but hubris is best not displayed until you are beyond the reach of vengeance, as opposed to being about to walk into the fortress of the foe you have just mocked.
(4) Where we already have the electoral numbers, our political vengeance has been merciless against the GOP; witness California after its electoral dalliance with anti-immigrant policies or Mitt Romney’s disastrous 2012 campaign .
(5) Vengeance and the wish to punish are understandable reactions to feeling duped and fooled.
(6) Somewhere in here is a story that Refn can hardly be bothered to tell: the psychotic brother of Bangkok-dwelling American Julian (Ryan Gosling) murders a girl, is murdered for it in his turn by the girl's father, who is acting reluctantly under the aegis of a karaoke-loving samurai-cop (Vithaya Pansringarm), an angel of vengeance figure who then subtracts arm number one from the father as punishment for pimping out his late daughter.
(7) It sounds like the premise for a Stephen King thriller, but this tale of fixation and vengeance is the latest chapter of the writer's real life.
(8) Game of Thrones Trailer #2 - Vengeance (HBO) Another world 4.
(9) And this short-lived fixation will move the conversation away from the administrations’s chaotic (or nonexistent) foreign policy, away from Trump’s impulsive vengeance undertaken on behalf of the very same “beautiful babies” he has prevented from entering our country.
(10) Yet the smog came back with a vengeance on Wednesday.
(11) The four horsemen of Trident – Vanguard, Victorious, Vigilant and Vengeance – take it in turn to provide a continuous patrol of the world's oceans, wielding a cargo of up to 16 Trident ballistic missiles.
(12) The author examines how these negative affects, the accompanying victim role, and oppositional defiance enable angry adolescents to defend against depression and loss, to demand nurturance from others, to protect their precarious inner autonomy, and to undo their humiliation and shame by vengeance and reversal.
(13) Such gruesome stories of expedience and vengeance have proliferated as fast as North Korea’s missile programmes during Kim’s five-year reign.
(14) It took five months but it seems that the "sad 4chaners" have now indeed reached Gawker, with a vengeance.
(15) In our own way, it is a form of vengeance: by gossiping, we have the feeling we're plotting.
(16) "They hate us, with a vengeance," said another Liverpool officer, adding that the rioters were not dissimilar to the officer's son, who had "fallen by the wayside" ... "He's grown up in a hard area, you know.
(17) As part of a growing threat to the Seven Kingdoms from beyond the Wall, what will her lust for vengeance mean?
(18) As Sarah Zielinski from Smithsonian magazine , Kristen Philipkoski on Gizmodo and Mel Robbins on cnn.com state ringingly, while freezing may kill some germs, it most certainly won't kill all, and the germs will return with a vengeance once you wear those jeans again and heat them up to body temperature.
(19) There still exists a view that Bashir's government is all that stands between stability and the barbarians at the gate, ready to storm the capital city and wreak vengeance for all the grievances inflicted by the Arab centre of power.
(20) Blockbuster machine Marvel were somewhat more successful when they went for a darker approach to Thor: The Dark World in 2013, with a tale filled with vengeance, surprise deaths and dimly-filtered Icelandic locations.
Vengeful
Definition:
(a.) Vindictive; retributive; revengeful.
Example Sentences:
(1) On hearing the Rolf Harris verdicts, I felt vengeful, like many, I expect – condemning this man who led the public a merry dance and enjoyed enormous success while perpetrating abuse.
(2) If he was a cartoon character, he’d be … Mourinho was definitely the Grinch – ill-tempered, vengeful, unable to moderate what came out of his mouth, but also sometimes charming and hilariously funny.
(3) Thankfully, there is no sign so far of another Oswald Mosley, and the British National party performed poorly in the election, but Gray detects some of the hallmarks of populism – "a diffuse sense of grievance directed at the political class" and "an indeterminate, unlimited hope" – in the 2008 election of the unqualified Boris Johnson as mayor of London, in the carelessly vengeful mood of many voters after the MPs' expenses scandal, and in the three-week wonder of Cleggmania.
(4) Whatever else Valérie Trierweiler has been portrayed as – vengeful harpy, ambitious meddler, undignified ex – she is also a woman who has had her heart broken.
(5) Individuals "associated with the opposition" had used an FM radio station to broadcast hate speech, even urging "men from one community to commit vengeful sexual violence against women from another community", it said.
(6) Either he says "mea culpa" and resigns, almost certainly precipitating a general election; or he condemns the ledgers as fabrications, the work of a vengeful Bárcenas angry about taking the fall for a practice that allegedly all were party to.
(7) After much online rancour, Pelevina agreed she would not stand in the elections, but wrote on Facebook that Yashin was a “simple liar, petty and vengeful, and simply an indecent person”.
(8) Hopefully it takes more than a throwing knife hurled by a vengeful sexagenarian to take him down.
(9) Labour strategists also hope that by postponing the bulk of the pain until April 2010 or the year after, the voters will not be too vengeful in the spring.
(10) Perhaps the culprit was skiving off the wedding of a despised but vengeful cousin when he posted.
(11) What’s much more questionable is the way the same vengeful attitude is extended to anyone who ever portrayed the last two years of Labour politics in terms of doubt, concern and malaise, and who are being similarly instructed to say sorry for their alleged heresy or be escorted from the building.
(12) Acts of intimacy and frail hope in a vortex out there, of mad politics and distant wars come vengefully home to claim those who had simply gone about their lives.
(13) Fast forward 10 years and a vengeful ghost of the victim returns to haunt the Iceland manager, who has, rather unusually, become the county's prime minister.
(14) The Egyptian blogger, Zeinobia, argued that the attack “will generate more anger and we will have more vengeful actions from the regime, which already did not waste any time in the past [in terms of increasing] oppression and fighting freedoms in the name of counter-terrorism”.
(15) "Instead of chasing tax evaders they are chasing me," said Vaxevanis, who had described his original trial as "targeted and vengeful".
(16) The vengeful allies after the First World War tried initially to demand Germany pay reparations on that scale, atoning for millions of dead in the trenches, before more than halving their demands.
(17) One woman looked her in the eye and described how she lost her sons, aged 12 and nine, when they were unlawfully killed by her vengeful ex-husband in a house fire in which he also died.
(18) For the last few months, in preparation for a radio documentary, I've been talking to Comfort's friends and relations and reading through the immense body of work that now lies in the shadow of The Joy of Sex – the poetry that ensured he was spoken of in the same breath as Auden and Spender; the drama about the mine-workers forced to dig a toxic element that irradiates their bones and turns them into vengeful monsters; the pamphlets arguing that peace in the atomic age can only be secured through public disobedience.
(19) Trierweiler was seen as a vengeful second wife, staking out her territory.
(20) That it is impossible to imagine her successors going in for comparable sharing only underlines, on the other hand, how rapidly the royal family restored its factory settings – absorbing, along the way, the woman who prompted Diana into vengeful activity.