0 expressing a strong wish to punish someone who has harmed you or your family or friends:
1 desiring to hurt someone, often violently, in order to punish that person for having hurt you:
The margraves, on the other hand, were likely to be both more vengeful and more grateful.
If the wife is not vengeful, she may try to avoid adding unnecessarily to his experiential suffering.
The experience of the period between the wars had taught the painful lesson that this would just breed resentment and vengeful sentiments.
Is it changing with vengeful intent?
The prospect of being left to the tender mercies of vengeful colleagues was to cause many a loyalist to prefer corporate solidarity to promises of royal protection.
If the final report is anything like an earlier draft, it may be safely dismissed as vengeful, biased and inaccurate.
Each side is violent and vengeful in what they believe is for their conscience, and their belief in what is right.
It is enough for my purpose to say that they believe that it was conceived in a vengeful spirit.