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adj. - Disposed to want to inflict harm or injury in return for (as an injury or insult) : Disposed to want to exact satisfaction for a sense of injury

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Usage examples (35)
  • The gypsies are not cruel; they are merely revengeful.
  • So Agryopoulo Bey marched off happy in his revengeful mind.
  • His pride and his revengeful spirit went hand in hand together.
  • "But I don't like to be angry, and to feel revengeful," she said.
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