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WRATHFULLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wrathfully mean? 

WRATHFULLY (adverb)
  The adverb WRATHFULLY has 1 sense:

1. in a wrathful mannerplay

  Familiarity information: WRATHFULLY used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WRATHFULLY (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

In a wrathful manner

Context example:

he looked at her, not wrathfully now, but quizzically

Pertainym:

wrathful (vehemently incensed and condemnatory)


 Context examples 


“By my soul, master-shipman, this passes all patience!” he cried wrathfully.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But gods are accustomed to being obeyed, and Grey Beaver wrathfully launched a canoe in pursuit.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Meg bathed the insulted hand with glycerine and tears, Beth felt that even her beloved kittens would fail as a balm for griefs like this, Jo wrathfully proposed that Mr. Davis be arrested without delay, and Hannah shook her fist at the 'villain' and pounded potatoes for dinner as if she had him under her pestle.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But at the end of half an hour he arose, growled wrathfully at the motionless ball, and trotted on.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

She sprang away, yelling with pain, and while he took delight in the smell of burning flesh and hair, he watched her shaking her head and growling wrathfully a score of feet away.

(White Fang, by Jack London)



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