1
as in angry
feeling or showing anger
the boss was livid when yet another deadline was missed
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2
as in pallid
lacking a healthy skin color
her face was livid with fear
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Recent Examples of livid
In January, hearing that a frenemy had been granted access, Mark was livid.
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Jason Parham,
Wired News,
24 Apr. 2026
But Messi was livid when Miami recently was eliminated in the Round of 16 from the Concacaf Champions Cup tournament.
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Greg Cote
april 16,
Miami Herald,
16 Apr. 2026
As many as two dozen died and Staten Islanders were livid at a botched cleanup.
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Marcia Kramer,
CBS News,
12 Apr. 2026
House Republicans were livid that the bill passed by the Senate does not fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol.
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Kevin Freking,
Fortune,
28 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for livid
Jason Parham,
Wired News,
24 Apr. 2026
But Messi was livid when Miami recently was eliminated in the Round of 16 from the Concacaf Champions Cup tournament.
—
Greg Cote
april 16,
Miami Herald,
16 Apr. 2026
As many as two dozen died and Staten Islanders were livid at a botched cleanup.
—
Marcia Kramer,
CBS News,
12 Apr. 2026
House Republicans were livid that the bill passed by the Senate does not fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol.
—
Kevin Freking,
Fortune,
28 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for livid
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The Commission ultimately left it at 400 feet, prompting an intense reaction from the angry crowd.
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Some of the women who were angry contacted the SFMOMA not simply to share feedback, but to try to ensure Bahr could never work with the institution again.
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Opponents of the proposal want the county to consider different locations for the park site, arguing the project may harm a variety of native species to the area, including the western spadefoot toad and pallid bats.
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While disrupting the business of an American multinational company may seem a pallid response to the destruction of an Iranian primary school where more than a hundred children were killed, such asymmetric attacks in the physical and digital realms have been a feature of this conflict.
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Rob-Will’s enraged face as Beulah told him what the situation actually is was pretty amazing.
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Massive, lumpy-looking hippos, who prefer to wallow or swim slowly in water pools, lakes, and rivers can run as fast as 25 km/h (about 70 meters in 10 seconds), a respectable sprinting speed not to be matched by most adults trying to outrun an enraged animal.
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That’s also when a Seattle gastroenterologist named Walter Voegtlin published a pale volume with a drawing of a loincloth-wearing hominid on the cover.
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Bartlett’s character is like a rock slab, a vestige of an ancient religion, brought to life in overlapping strips of muslin, linen, and leather in shades of dove, cream, gray, and pale blue, with his hood pulled tight around his face and his hands wrapped in mittens.
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Baffled rather than outraged, curious Kaho tries to uncover the meaning of his words.
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Since construction at the Eagle Rock site — so nicknamed after a decrepit colonnade — first stalled in 2008, the only thing that accumulated faster than the garbage and graffiti were the epithets from outraged community members.
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Always, always those little ashen faces.
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Hitchcock didn’t respond, his face slowly turning ashen.
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The book-club members roundly disliked it, indignant that the character was being driven mad by perimenopause, as if hormone-replacement therapy didn’t exist.
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Judge Timothy Mazzei asked him Wednesday in a loud, indignant voice.
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Police said the two male juveniles became angered when the other three would not take them to buy marijuana.
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Soon, the faces of the angered New York City citizens around her soften.
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“Livid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/livid. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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