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
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Colt Gray sent grandmother concerning texts In her testimony, Polhamus reviewed several angry, vulgar text messages from Colt Gray that showed his spiraling mental health and penchant for outbursts.—
Eric Levenson,
CNN Money,
20 Feb. 2026 -
When Fiyero chooses to leave with Elphaba, Glinda’s left heartbroken and angry.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
20 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Depictions of such raw humanity have the capacity to shape us into more compassionate community members, more thoughtful voters and more indignant seekers of justice.—
Anya Sesay,
jsonline.com,
5 Feb. 2026
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By documenting not just his actions but showing the privilege his race, religion and background afford him in comparison to his colleagues, the film reveals the inherent inequality in whose stories get told, and who’s allowed to be angry, indignant and morally correct.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
26 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Get mad enough to change your mind.—
Dan Hyman,
Rolling Stone,
22 Feb. 2026
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This study not only clarified the date of the burial, which drove archaeologists practically mad, as no one could determine why the dates kept coming back so broadly, but also settled the matter once and for all.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Some still vividly recall the heavy, thick pall of smoke that drifted through the entire region, fed by furious wildfires to the east and north.—
Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board,
The Orlando Sentinel,
22 Feb. 2026
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Both of these rabbis were already furious about the formation of the American Council for Judaism, an anti-Zionist organization that a group of German Jews, including Julian, had founded in 1942.—
Nicholas Lemann,
New Yorker,
21 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Latinx people of conscience recognize our own tios, tias, primos, primas, mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers in the brown faces being livestreamed with blood and agony pouring into enraged mouths asking for help.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Feb. 2026
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However, her direct and outspoken approach has also led to controversy, with enraged officials in Honduras once wanting to declare her persona non grata.—
Yamlek Mojica Loaisiga,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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And many people are gonna go ballistic in Brazil.—
Rebecca Ford,
Vanity Fair,
10 Feb. 2026
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Police said officers shot the suspect and his grandmother during the gunfight, and that the suspect also hit one officer in the ballistic vest.—
Chase Rogers,
Dallas Morning News,
4 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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In lieu of any local angle or a national controversy to get outraged over, what’s a sports columnist to do to fill space on a lazy sports Sunday in the middle of February?—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Feb. 2026
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Much of his nascent mayoral campaign has focused on sincere, outraged messaging about governmental fraud and waste.—
Gary Baum,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Feb. 2026
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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
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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 23 Feb. 2026.
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