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Recent Examples of hotheaded
Who hasn’t fired off some hotheaded e-mail about a missing package or demanded a ransom when something was misdelivered?
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Casey Cep, New Yorker, 28 June 2025
The young painter, a hotheaded arrival from Milan looking for a break in Rome’s cutthroat art world, set out to stupefy.
—Jason Farago, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
The Blue Bloods spinoff follows Wahlberg's hotheaded detective Danny Reagan, the oldest living son of NYPD Commissioner Frank Reagan (Selleck).
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 24 Feb. 2025
Aside from hotheaded Ted and maybe Davis’ coolly ambitious Erica, almost none of the characters have distinctive personalities.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2025
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Casey Cep, New Yorker, 28 June 2025
The young painter, a hotheaded arrival from Milan looking for a break in Rome’s cutthroat art world, set out to stupefy.
—Jason Farago, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
The Blue Bloods spinoff follows Wahlberg's hotheaded detective Danny Reagan, the oldest living son of NYPD Commissioner Frank Reagan (Selleck).
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 24 Feb. 2025
Aside from hotheaded Ted and maybe Davis’ coolly ambitious Erica, almost none of the characters have distinctive personalities.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hotheaded
Adjective
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The blast radius of Carl Rinsch‘s extravagant spending habits and Netflix‘s impetuous handing out of millions in the Golden Age of Streaming now has the feds footing the bills.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
12 Aug. 2025
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The dynamic changes from drag dialogue to an aging aristocrat-wannabe and her impetuous male ingenue.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
10 June 2025
Adjective
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This lopsided risk-reward structure encourages bold, sometimes reckless decisions.—
Jim Vinoski,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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All of them, vehicles and passengers, were initially left stranded, victims of a reckless decision.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Even his mistake for Damsgaard’s opener brought more of a stunned silence than exasperated groans or impulsive anger from the locals.—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
New York Times,
22 Sep. 2025
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Single-minded and fairly humorless, Chappellet is impelled but seldom impulsive.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
18 Sep. 2025
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Boiled down to a thoughtless pervert by the public, Six became one.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
21 Aug. 2025
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In the days depicted in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, thoughtless incarceration of the mentally ill was too common.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 July 2025
Adjective
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That included a skinny, brash, cocksure right-hander named Walker Buehler, who went from a first-round pick to assuming the mantle as the next one poised to break through.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
22 Sep. 2025
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The rugged and brash illustrations of top-down hole designs come from Charcoal Golf’s artist and illustrator, Mark Rivard.—
Tim Corlett,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Systemic risk: The combination of low interest rates and an expanding economy encourages speculation and imprudent risk taking.—
Hersh Shefrin,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Huger was ultimately charged with a DUI and DWI, negligently driving a vehicle in a careless and imprudent manner endangering property, life, and person, as well as recklessly driving a vehicle in wanton and willful disregard for the safety of persons and property.—
Liza Esquibias,
People.com,
2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The Chasm is a mockumentary comedy following an overconfident climber who, after losing his best friend and climbing partner to unexpected and unfortunate circumstances, chooses to proceed solo on a historic and potentially fatal rock climb.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
22 Sep. 2025
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However, Leiter managed to sound overconfident in the postgame, wrongfully declaring that the Yankees' bullpen is up there with the best of its peers.—
Jackson Roberts,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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Depending on your viewpoint, Google has made either a good trade-off decision or lost its potential in a foolhardy quest for AI.—
Ewan Spence,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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From this perspective, Putin seems foolhardy in the extreme.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
15 Aug. 2025
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“Hotheaded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hotheaded. Accessed 23 Sep. 2025.
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