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as in angry
feeling or showing anger the boss was livid when yet another deadline was missed

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Recent Examples of livid Bell is livid that Stabler’s been working the case the whole time and that her staffers have been lying to her about helping him. Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 12 June 2025 This rhetoric is music to the ears of importers for some retailers and fashion brands, but clearly the American textile industry is livid. Rick Helfenbein, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025 Cudi testified that Combs was livid that the Grammy-winning rapper had been seeing Ventura romantically, even spending the holidays with her family in Connecticut. Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 May 2025 Competitive Wordle Score The Bot is livid, alright. Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for livid
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  • Most of the time, Superman is depressed or angry or getting beat to a pulp or having cans thrown at him or getting arrested.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
  • Others were frustrated—some even outright angry—that the Commission fell short of declaring all forms of obesity a disease and instead recommended a more nuanced clinical diagnosis.
    Francesco Rubino, Time, 9 July 2025
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  • Similar prompts yielded images of a skull with glowing eyes hovering above an ornate cross, and another pallid, blank-eyed woman — this one hooded, with a halo of fire, crying blood.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2025
  • My skin was pallid, and lesions covered the inside of my mouth.
    Suleika Jaouad, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
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  • Symptoms of heat exhaustion may include heavy sweating and fatigue, a weak pulse and skin that’s cool, pale or clammy, as well as headache, dizziness, nausea and fainting.
    Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 30 June 2025
  • The wine is a pale straw with greenish highlights, featuring aromas of green apple, lemon, and spring flowers.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
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  • In his post-game meeting with reporters, New York coach Tom Thibodeau looked ashen and was at loss for explaining what unfolded.
    Sean Gregory, Time, 22 May 2025
  • The urologist’s face, lit by the glow of these images, was ashen.
    Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • Later in the film, François Arnaud plays a dreamy/nightmare client, matching her gentleness with mad intensity, while giving their scenes together a charge that carries the film into its frenzied conclusion with bold poise.
    Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 11 July 2025
  • So Lex Luthor, his oldest foe and my favorite, transitions from a mad scientist at this time to the corporate man, the importance of him and capitalist power.
    Ari Daniel, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2025
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  • 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

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“Livid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/livid. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.

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