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
  • The many leaps in time to the wedding—to which Ruben shows up on a motorcycle, angry enough to knock his brother out with a single punch—consistently ratchet up the sense of dread, and the suspense over why or how these two have stayed enmeshed.
    Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Jabil board defies angry shareholders.
    Jim Edwards, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Previously, Hungarians opposed to the government were indignant but apathetic.
    Isaac Stanley-Becker, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Upon his return, Tagovailoa gave a rather indignant response to those who questioned his NFL future.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • In the annals of English football, this shoots close to the top of the list of ridiculous moments, along with Troy Deeney’s mad goal for Watford in the Championship play-offs in 2013 and Sergio Aguero’s Premier League title-winning strike for Manchester City in 2012.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Here's our list of the five best space prison movies (in no particular order, don't get mad at the numbers).
    Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 25 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Officials were furious about a video Mamdani made in front of Griffin's building to justify taxing the owners of multimillion dollar apartments.
    Marcia Kramer, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The latter song exemplifies Martin’s neck-snappingly furious style; his drumming simply never settles.
    Dean Van Nguyen, Pitchfork, 22 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Officers said an adult male suspect attempted to sell products to the bakery and became enraged when an employee declined.
    Tim Fang, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Shortly after administering the technical to an enraged Self, referee Doug Sirmons hit KU’s coach with another tech, ostensibly for remaining on the court instead of returning to the coach’s box.
    Gary Bedore March 5, Kansas City Star, 5 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Ukraine’s Air Defense said Russia launched in excess of 40 ballistic and cruise missiles as well as more than 650 drones of various types, calling it one of the toughest attacks of the year to date.
    Jonathan Tirone, Bloomberg, 16 Apr. 2026
  • And that Iran itself is a dangerous actor that destabilizes the Middle East and talks about threatening Israel and is definitely developing nuclear power beyond civilian use at some level and has a very advanced ballistic-missile program.
    Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • In the episode, David is caught between a delicious new Palestinian chicken restaurant, a Palestinian girlfriend and an outraged inner circle of Jewish friends.
    Christopher Buchanan, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2026
  • This dispute culminated in the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s designation, by outraged tweet, of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk—a standing peril to national security.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 15 Apr. 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 28 Apr. 2026.

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