Definition of horn-madnext
as in angry
feeling or showing anger the residents were horn-mad when they found out their housing community had been built on a waste dump site

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Adjective
  • Apart from the payment issues, many health workers and facilities have been attacked by rebels and angry mobs.
    ABC News, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The report said that the 5-year-old cousin urinated on the floor, which made Gonzalez angry.
    Ana Maria Soler, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • But if state Democratic leaders simply chose a new nominee on their own, voters might be indignant.
    Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 22 July 2026
  • 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.
    Melanie Thernstrom, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
Adjective
  • There was also a stream of characters who visited the island, from a pop group to a movie producer, a mad scientist, and Russian cosmonauts.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 Aug. 2026
  • There are a few pages spent on Deflategate (that made Brady mad), only a few paragraphs devoted to Aaron Hernandez, none on Spygate.
    Darren Cooper, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Above a certain temperature, the system starts to work against itself; the furious beating of cilia uses up any oxygen the coral’s tissues can absorb, and then the polyps can suffocate in the less oxygenated water.
    Marlowe Starling, Quanta Magazine, 5 Aug. 2026
  • This Lusitania didn’t sink as a formal band played, but the ticking of each man’s pocket watch synchronized to form a furious percussion section, and all those wailing women’s voices layered into girl-group harmonies.
    Claire Carusillo, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • But the suspect’s sister, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the victim became enraged after noticing a scratch on his motorcycle and stormed up to her brother, blaming him for the damage.
    Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 9 Aug. 2026
  • As Clenney became enraged, Obumseli threw his hands up in defense, and Clenney continued swinging on him, the video showed.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026
Adjective
  • However, these missiles, extensively used against Iranian ballistic threats, won't arrive until 2029, with the contract completing in 2032.
    Frank Holmes, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • It is controlled using a four-axis joystick and includes automatic landing, motor redundancy and a ballistic parachute.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 9 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • The former Fox host looked outraged at the possibility that people didn’t believe the president.
    Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Most of them were outraged and angered by the club’s decision.
    Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Police said the two male juveniles became angered when the other three would not take them to buy marijuana.
    Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Soon, the faces of the angered New York City citizens around her soften.
    Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025
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“Horn-mad.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horn-mad. Accessed 13 Aug. 2026.

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