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: --
It is as if someone went out for a vengeful look for people who had not been caught.
Faith and religion can be taken over by those who want to use them as respectable fronts for their own prejudices, agendas and vengeful purposes.
First, the action is seen by many as vengeful.
One says this in no spiteful or vengeful spirit.
He strongly rejected as simply untrue the implication that "all prisoners are nasty, evil, vengeful, unrepentant".
We hope that they will control any who may be intent on vengeful actions, which will get them nowhere.
It also gives some kind of satisfaction to the slightly vengeful attitude of the public, who are determined that crime should not go free.
It is enough for my purpose to say that they believe that it was conceived in a vengeful spirit.
