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as in angry
feeling or showing anger I absolutely get choleric when a telemarketer calls during the dinner hour

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Recent Examples of choleric Both have professed deep affection for the comic-book series about a globe-trotting boy reporter, his wirehaired fox terrier, and his choleric seafaring friend. IEEE Spectrum, 31 Mar. 2010 Even outside politics, Mr. Jones’s choleric, wide-eyed style has influenced the way in which a new generation of conspiracy theorists looks for fame online. Kevin Roose, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2022 Mask agonists tend to be both crumbly and choleric, a bad combination and ample reason to seek comfort. Brian T. Allen, National Review, 17 Mar. 2022 He is replaced by a choleric, more professional West Indian, a lean black man with a faint, unplaceable accent. Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021 He is replaced by a choleric, more professional West Indian, a lean black man with a faint, unplaceable accent. Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021 He is replaced by a choleric, more professional West Indian, a lean black man with a faint, unplaceable accent. Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021 He is replaced by a choleric, more professional West Indian, a lean black man with a faint, unplaceable accent. Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021 He is replaced by a choleric, more professional West Indian, a lean black man with a faint, unplaceable accent. Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for choleric
Adjective
  • But a new wrench is thrown into the works in the form of an irritable downstairs neighbor.
    Megan McCluskey, Time, 27 June 2025
  • And getting swept at home by a losing club, the Miami Marlins, would make anyone a tad irritable and hypersensitive.
    Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • Without Flagg, asking angry fans for more money may have sent Welts back into another round of retirement.
    Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 June 2025
  • Mamdani’s victory fits the emerging pattern of angry and fed-up voters from across the spectrum, as some notable anti-establishment populists have swept to victory in the US and across the globe on both the left and the right.
    Time, Time, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • Northrop Grumman saw some fiery drama during a test of a more powerful version of the solid rocket booster that would be used if NASA’s Artemis program ever gets to its ninth launch using the beleaguered Space Launch System rocket.
    Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 June 2025
  • About 1 minute and 40 seconds into the booster's burn, a fiery plume emerged from the motor's structure just above its nozzle.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • In a memorable photo from a G-7 summit during his first term, the U.S. president sat, arms crossed, glaring at an indignant German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
    JENNIFER LIND, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
  • Facing this deluge of information and personalities, Kelley’s Fact Checker is less indignant and sure-footed than Fingal, and in this uncertainty takes an important next step.
    Isabel Clara Ruehl June 16, Literary Hub, 16 June 2025
Adjective
  • In the ’60s, my grandma came straight to Los Angeles from Mississippi with mad kids.
    Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 27 June 2025
  • Sit down in Geneva or Vienna or Qatar and fully and permanently surrender this mad nightmare to acquire nukes, or face more of the same devastation.
    New York Daily News, Twin Cities, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • But the Thunder weathered the Pacers’ furious comeback bid on Monday, with Jalen Williams scoring 11 of his game-high 40 points in the fourth.
    Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 19 June 2025
  • Georgia’s roommate Cooper (perhaps a production plant) then goes and tells Ava, who’s furious and, in turn, tells Riley.
    Tom Smyth, Vulture, 18 June 2025
Adjective
  • Unsurprisingly, Russia and China have been the starkest foreign detractors of Golden Dome, which sets out to defend the vast spread of the U.S. homeland from ballistic, hypersonic and cruise missiles through a web of satellites, sensors and interceptors.
    Ruxandra Iordache, CNBC, 20 June 2025
  • At the time of his arrest, Diaz was wearing a ballistic vest and a gas mask.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 June 2025

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“Choleric.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/choleric. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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