as in enraged
feeling or showing anger my sister gets really angry and practically throws a tantrum if her soccer team loses

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Recent Examples of angry Establish that regardless of how angry an argument becomes, either one of you can request a break. Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2025 Gemma zipped her suit and sanitized her hands, shaking her head, every movement angry. Lizz Schumer, People.com, 9 Aug. 2025 The man is, well, justifiably angry, given his daughters were just killed. Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 9 Aug. 2025 The family rift stems from an infamous September 2016 private plane ride from Europe when an allegedly drunk Pitt became angry and physical with Jolie, their oldest son Maddox and some of the other children. Martha Ross, Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for angry
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  • The YouTuber Andrew Callaghan has been documenting off-kilter American politics since before the 2020 election, but the recent interview on his Channel 5 web show with an indignant Hunter Biden caught wide attention.
    Ben Smith, semafor.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • But Hunter speaks with the indignant passion of someone who made nearly $1.5 million selling his art during his father’s campaign and the early years of his administration.
    Boston Herald editorial staff, Boston Herald, 23 July 2025
Adjective
  • Still, this is evanescent stuff, hardly weighty enough to get mad about with respect to the aforementioned problematic areas.
    Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Things become considerably more volatile when the actual shoot begins and Coppola’s Willy Wonka-like charm — as Plaza describes it — is put to the test by the demands of realizing his mad vision once and for all.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • During the weekend retreat at Camp David, in 1971, when Nixon’s team arrived at the decision to untether the dollar from gold, Treasury Secretary John Connally dismissed concerns that allies would be furious.
    Wally Adeyemo, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025
  • During the 2013 trial, prosecutors said Arias was furious after Alexander ended their relationship and began seeing someone new, rejecting her attempts to rekindle their romance.
    Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 17 Aug. 2025
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  • Even as Trump touted his plan for peace talks, Russia on Thursday launched one of its biggest aerial assaults so far this year, focusing on western Ukraine in the barrage of 574 drones and 40 ballistic and cruise missiles.
    Aamer Madhani, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The rest of the attack involved ballistic or cruise missiles.
    Robert Birsel Shane Croucher John Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
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  • Like across-the-board tariffs, which would eat into profit margins and infuriate investors.
    Allison Morrow, CNN, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The results, which are beautifully austere, flooded by sunlight but somehow cold, infuriate Van Buren, played with a masculine bluster by Guy Pearce, who sounds as if his idea of the Breakfast of Champions was a bowl of ground glass drowned in whole milk.
    Tom Gliatto, People.com, 3 Jan. 2025

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“Angry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/angry. Accessed 31 Aug. 2025.

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