hotheaded

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Recent Examples of hotheaded His story is super interesting; he was seemingly plucked from nowhere, was long viewed as a hotheaded liability, is still sometimes seen as the grit to Saliba's polish, but is an absolutely class player and the emotional heartbeat of this team. James McNicholas, The Athletic, 10 Feb. 2025 Ledbetter’s struggles with her hotheaded son, as well as her triumphs as an accomplished ballroom dancer outside of work, also get a half-hearted treatment. Tomris Laffly, Variety, 5 Jan. 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 See All Example Sentences for hotheaded
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Adjective
  • The dynamic changes from drag dialogue to an aging aristocrat-wannabe and her impetuous male ingenue.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 10 June 2025
  • Crisp, curly hair indicates a hasty, somewhat impetuous and rash character.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 June 2025
Adjective
  • These raids are reckless and sow more chaos and division in our city.
    Anna Commander Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025
  • Two other Democrats, however, have denounced the strikes as a reckless escalation.
    Lila Hempel-Edgers, Charlotte Observer, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • Written and directed by documentarian Brian Tetsuro Ivie (Emanuel) in his narrative directorial debut, the film tells the story of an impulsive young woman and a reclusive older man who launch on a poignant cross‑country road trip.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 26 June 2025
  • Unfortunately, impulsive, inventory-optimization metric chasing often soothes symptoms while elevating strategic risk.
    Noah Barsky, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
Adjective
  • Multiple offenses for each race will mean long jail sentences and $100,000+ in fines, which should finally get the attention of these thoughtless fools.
    DP Opinion, Denver Post, 17 June 2025
  • That was still true at the end of Thursday’s first quarter, when Cardoso turned around from a routine rebound and threw an awkward, thoughtless pass straight into the hands of the Wings’ Paige Bueckers.
    Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 31 May 2025
Adjective
  • That journey includes a flirtation with steely race engineer Kate McKenna (Condon, 42) and push-back from brash teammate Joshua Pearce (Idris, 33).
    Marco della Cava, USA Today, 27 June 2025
  • However, internal conflict between the brash younger generation and the old-school leadership threatens to set a match to this powder keg, which will sweep the Westies into the FBI’s ever-deepening investigation into the Italian mafia.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 24 June 2025
Adjective
  • Continually placing financial stress on our hospitals and denying consistent, desperately needed care to undocumented individuals is financially imprudent—and morally bankrupt.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 June 2025
  • Still, in a world where there are not enough safeguards to keep the United States from entering imprudent wars, such legal reforms could serve the twin goals of conflict prevention and democratic accountability.
    Stephen Pomper, Foreign Affairs, 21 Sep. 2021
Adjective
  • The Apple study's revelation that AI reasoning models fail when faced with true complexity mirrors how overconfident individuals often struggle with genuinely challenging problems while maintaining their persuasive veneer.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
  • Most accidents happen when overconfident visitors ignore the rules or stray from marked paths.
    Erica Firpo, AFAR Media, 4 June 2025
Adjective
  • But while Martinez no longer is CPS CEO, that’s a foolhardy assumption so long as that pension fund solely is the city’s legal responsibility.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 2 July 2025
  • Hammack should have replied to Smith that a central banker planning something as complicated as the cost of credit would be as foolhardy as a president planning Harvard’s class of 2029, multiplied by many millions.
    John Tamny, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025

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“Hotheaded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hotheaded. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.

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