vengeful

Modifies a noun

• ghost: Does the fog creeping up from the river bring vengeful ghosts seeking to settle an old score?
• spirit: Does she feel like a guardian angel or a vengeful spirit?
• god: He was, however, also a vengeful god for those who did not live righteously.
• wife: From Japan, we hear of a blind man who helps the ghost of a vengeful wife to commit murder.
• justice: A merciful approach to justice contrasted with vengeful human justice.
• person: Four, I'm really not a vengeful person.

Modifying Another Word

• not: This must be a justice that, tho capable of imposing sanction, is not vengeful.
• very: She's fleeing not just the authorities but also one very large, very angry and very vengeful storm headed after her.