ireful

as in angry
feeling or showing anger ireful expressions on the faces of the protesters of the tax increase

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Adjective
  • Without Flagg, asking angry fans for more money may have sent Welts back into another round of retirement.
    Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 June 2025
  • Mamdani’s victory fits the emerging pattern of angry and fed-up voters from across the spectrum, as some notable anti-establishment populists have swept to victory in the US and across the globe on both the left and the right.
    Time, Time, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • In a 48-hour whirlwind, President Donald Trump veered from elated to indignant to triumphant as his fragile Israel-Iran ceasefire agreement came together, teetered toward collapse and ultimately coalesced.
    Aamer Madhani, Chicago Tribune, 24 June 2025
  • In a memorable photo from a G-7 summit during his first term, the U.S. president sat, arms crossed, glaring at an indignant German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
    JENNIFER LIND, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
Adjective
  • River had Gonzalo Montiel sent off at the death for a second yellow card as the match ended with Inter players running off the pitch showered by items from the stands and followed by a furious Marcos Acuna until he was restrained by team-mates.
    Jack Lang, New York Times, 25 June 2025
  • Employees, terrified and furious, call out to the agents.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 20 June 2025
Adjective
  • In the ’60s, my grandma came straight to Los Angeles from Mississippi with mad kids.
    Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 27 June 2025
  • Sit down in Geneva or Vienna or Qatar and fully and permanently surrender this mad nightmare to acquire nukes, or face more of the same devastation.
    New York Daily News, Twin Cities, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • During the early morning hours of July 3, Griffin shot his partner Victoria Truss, 34, and two others, including a Shorewood police officer who was struck in his ballistic vest and treated and released from the hospital later in the day, according to a July 4 MAIT news release.
    Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 8 July 2025
  • Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem also was televised in a ballistic vest joining 90 ICE officers in an operation that targeted immigrants with criminal records in New York City but also netted several without criminal histories, according to CBS News, which embedded in the raid.
    Daniel Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 3 July 2025
Adjective
  • Like across-the-board tariffs, which would eat into profit margins and infuriate investors.
    Allison Morrow, CNN, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The results, which are beautifully austere, flooded by sunlight but somehow cold, infuriate Van Buren, played with a masculine bluster by Guy Pearce, who sounds as if his idea of the Breakfast of Champions was a bowl of ground glass drowned in whole milk.
    Tom Gliatto, People.com, 3 Jan. 2025
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“Ireful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ireful. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.

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