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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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as in pallid
lacking a healthy skin color
her face was livid with fear
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Recent Examples of livid
Some American travelers are hiding behind the maple leaf, and Canadians are livid.
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Sarah Hutter, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
One of Trumpism’s worst characteristics—on livid display in the sad radicalizing of Robinson, and in its senseless expression in the murder of Kirk—is its open warfare on the malleable psyches of young men.
—Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2025
As a result, the entire room, including a livid MacKinney, drops and pledges their loyalty.
—Lincee Ray Published, EW.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Packers head coach Matt LaFleur was livid and told Walker to run a lap.
—Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
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Sarah Hutter, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025
One of Trumpism’s worst characteristics—on livid display in the sad radicalizing of Robinson, and in its senseless expression in the murder of Kirk—is its open warfare on the malleable psyches of young men.
—Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2025
As a result, the entire room, including a livid MacKinney, drops and pledges their loyalty.
—Lincee Ray Published, EW.com, 15 Aug. 2025
Packers head coach Matt LaFleur was livid and told Walker to run a lap.
—Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for livid
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Snook and Lacy, who display such sharp instincts in their best work, seem to have been directed to overact; cameras freeze on their exaggeratedly bewildered or angry or devastated expressions, putting exclamation points at the end of too many scenes.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
6 Nov. 2025
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So what actually makes Powell angry?—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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County plans acknowledged potential harm to pallid bats native to the area and called for installing bat boxes to offer them an alternative habitat.—
Hannah Elsmore,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 Nov. 2025
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Tallow or beef fat is usually pale, off-white, sometimes yellow: complexion was a key sign of chlorosis, which was named with a Greek word meaning pale, pallid, or yellow-green.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
27 Sep. 2025
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An enraged University of Iowa student was arrested after a Turning Point USA table was flipped on campus in an incident that was caught on video.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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Which casts a show seemingly designed to bypass all judgments with respect to storytelling and taste, gliding straight to the pleasure center of some imaginary horny, enraged, shopaholic feminine id, in a fairly sinister light.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
5 Nov. 2025
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The heiress and entrepreneur has a princess moment in a romantic pale pink gown with floral appliqués and a matching cape.—
Brittany Talarico,
PEOPLE,
4 Nov. 2025
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These figures, while shocking, unfortunately pale in comparison to those from the recent war, now widely recognized as a genocide.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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Health experts and Black leaders were outraged at his statement.—
Bea L. Hines,
Miami Herald,
24 Oct. 2025
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Parents would likely be outraged to learn the department isn’t more consistently tracking this information, said Charles Hobson, a professor at Indiana University Northwest and a board member of the advocacy group Stop Educator Sexual Abuse Misconduct & Exploitation.—
Danielle DuClos,
jsonline.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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Its skin looked yellow, and sometimes ashen.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Oct. 2025
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Given shorter travel times, a greater number of people would be able to experience its otherworldly ashen plains.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
10 Aug. 2025
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Everyone has an opinion about the correct address for ladies, and everyone is indignant when others’ choices are different.—
Judith Martin,
Mercury News,
13 Oct. 2025
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Still, Waits' daughter was indignant.—
Daniella Gray,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Sep. 2025
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Soon, the faces of the angered New York City citizens around her soften.—
Angelica Jade Bastién,
Vulture,
15 Aug. 2025
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“Livid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/livid. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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