vengefully
vengefully adverb: in a vengeful manner; vindictively, or done in vengeance.
Adverb
vengefully (comparative more vengefully, superlative most vengefully)
- In a vengeful manner; vindictively, or done in vengeance.
- She, seated between her aunt and Mr. Civil (now retired from the ministry on a pension), listening to the wind (for it was autumn) howling vengefully round the porch; while this envied, bedight girl eating her manifold chocolate gifts, would merrily go forth to further triumphs, laughing at the...1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 185
- But Josef's snake was in a state of such rage and pain that it vengefully administered a legful of lethal anaesthetic.2011, Louis de Bernières, The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman, page 313
Forms of vengefully
| comparative | more vengefully |
|---|---|
| superlative | most vengefully |
Origin of vengefully
From vengeful + -ly.
Questions about vengefully
- What does vengefully mean?
- Vengefully means in a vengeful manner; vindictively, or done in vengeance.
- What part of speech is vengefully?
- Vengefully is an adverb.
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