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Johnny and Ben are usually depicted as bickering surrogate brothers, the hotheaded youngster and the curmudgeonly elder; Susan is a pragmatic force, with Reed often lost in his own world.—David Sims, The Atlantic, 25 July 2025 Her little brother Johnny (Joseph Quinn) can become a human torch, though the hotheaded heartthrob is underestimated.—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 22 July 2025 Who hasn’t fired off some hotheaded e-mail about a missing package or demanded a ransom when something was misdelivered?—Casey Cep, New Yorker, 28 June 2025 The young painter, a hotheaded arrival from Milan looking for a break in Rome’s cutthroat art world, set out to stupefy.—Jason Farago, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hotheaded
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