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WRATHFUL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Vehemently incensed and condemnatory
Example:
but wroth as he was, a short struggle ended in reconciliation
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
angry (feeling or showing anger)
Context examples:
There it stands, on its two hind-legs, club in hand, immensely potential, passionate and wrathful and loving, god and mystery and power all wrapped up and around by flesh that bleeds when it is torn and that is good to eat like any flesh.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
If you say you love him, I know I shall do something desperate; and he looked as if he would keep his word, as he clenched his hands with a wrathful spark in his eyes.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It was in such a storm, and the worst that we had experienced, that I cast a weary glance to leeward, not in quest of anything, but more from the weariness of facing the elemental strife, and in mute appeal, almost, to the wrathful powers to cease and let us be.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
At first he had been prone to turn upon his pursuers, jealous of his dignity and wrathful; but at such times Mit-sah would throw the stinging lash of the thirty-foot cariboo-gut whip into his face and compel him to turn tail and run on.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
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