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vengeful

adjective as in retaliating; hating

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Yes, California’s newly elected Democratic senator requires bulked-up security to get through life, thanks to the animosity and violent threats stirred up by the vengeful president-elect.

As a practical matter, by far the most important protections against vengeful prosecutions are career federal prosecutors’ nonpartisan professionalism and the norms forbidding the White House from telling them whom to prosecute.

Conservatives pushed back against liberal commentators and activists’ narrative of a dark, vengeful Trump presidency.

Koed’s Stanley, full of class grievance, had a vengeful look from the outset.

A vengeful bully who threatens to cut off federal disaster aid for California wildfires if the state doesn’t support his policies.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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