cheesed off

chiefly British
as in angry
feeling or showing anger I was really cheesed off that they made me go to the back of the queue

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cheesed off
Adjective
  • Snook and Lacy, who display such sharp instincts in their best work, seem to have been directed to overact; cameras freeze on their exaggeratedly bewildered or angry or devastated expressions, putting exclamation points at the end of too many scenes.
    Judy Berman, Time, 6 Nov. 2025
  • So what actually makes Powell angry?
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Of the 45 missiles fired by Russia, some of which were ballistic weapons, only nine had been intercepted.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Samples of the Yuba County home’s walls even withstood ballistic testing, Lin said, as they were taken to a range and shot with guns multiple times.
    Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 8 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Everyone has an opinion about the correct address for ladies, and everyone is indignant when others’ choices are different.
    Judith Martin, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Still, Waits' daughter was indignant.
    Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • An enraged University of Iowa student was arrested after a Turning Point USA table was flipped on campus in an incident that was caught on video.
    Peter D'Abrosca, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Which casts a show seemingly designed to bypass all judgments with respect to storytelling and taste, gliding straight to the pleasure center of some imaginary horny, enraged, shopaholic feminine id, in a fairly sinister light.
    Judy Berman, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play.
    Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Elizabeth is the budding mad doctor’s fiancee, who’s dismembered under the blades of a rogue lawnmower in the opening scene of the film.
    Katie Rife, Vulture, 9 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Soon, the faces of the angered New York City citizens around her soften.
    Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Health experts and Black leaders were outraged at his statement.
    Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Parents would likely be outraged to learn the department isn’t more consistently tracking this information, said Charles Hobson, a professor at Indiana University Northwest and a board member of the advocacy group Stop Educator Sexual Abuse Misconduct & Exploitation.
    Danielle DuClos, jsonline.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Cue more furious backlash from the Democratic base.
    Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Sources said Turness, the BBC News chief, was blocked by the board from making a statement, a turn of events that is said to have left her furious.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 10 Nov. 2025
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“Cheesed off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cheesed%20off. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.

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