hot-tempered

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Recent Examples of hot-tempered Melissa Benoist as Bree Buckley: The intelligent and hot-tempered Buckley who formerly oversaw the fishery’s finances and, like her father, has allowed alcohol to ruin her bright future. Joe Otterson, Variety, 18 Sep. 2024 Benoist will play Bree Buckley, the intelligent and hot-tempered Buckley who formerly oversaw the fishery’s finances and, like her father, has allowed alcohol to ruin her bright future. Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2024 In a 2013 interview with CBS News, Knight pushed back on his reputation as being hot-tempered. Faris Tanyos, CBS News, 1 Nov. 2023 He is resented by Brother Nacho (Kinan Valdez), the most hot-tempered among them, for being another mouth to feed. Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023 In The Goldbergs, Orrantia plays Erica Goldberg, the sarcastic and hot-tempered sibling of show creator Adam F. Goldberg. Dallas News, 28 Feb. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hot-tempered
Adjective
  • However, with a new administration poised to take control in a month’s time that is pro-business and potentially more lenient in anti-trust policies, that antagonistic scenario could be altered.
    Jerrold Lundquist, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The potential pick could deepen Trump’s antagonistic relations with Mexico and add another controversial figure needing confirmation from the U.S. Senate, which will flip to Republican control in January.
    Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 10 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • In story mode, there are a few other people to find on the island, some of whom will be helpful and others hostile.
    Jason Bennett, arkansasonline.com, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Caitlin Clark's recent comment about benefiting from White privilege in the WNBA has fueled hostile online debates since it was published in Time magazine on Tuesday.
    Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 13 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The Eagles barely held on for a 22-16 victory over the feisty Carolina Panthers.
    Rob Maaddi, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2024
  • They were met in their driveway by a feisty polar bear, who lunged at the woman.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 5 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • That will be especially important because China in recent years has strengthened ties with a belligerent Algiers.
    Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
  • That’s an unnerving reality for the United States military, which has nearly 30,000 troops and its largest overseas base in South Korea, serving as a check against a belligerent North Korea and counterweight to an aggressive China in a strategically critical region.
    Simone McCarthy, CNN, 4 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The Panther organization was smaller and more pugnacious than the A.A.R.P.—a Chihuahua to the A.A.R.P.’s St. Bernard—but shared the larger group’s fixation on highly active seniors.
    Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
  • The pugnacious Costello annoyed the judge — at times in view of the jury — by continuing to speak after objections and rolling his eyes.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2024
Adjective
  • The combative environment engendered a grim sort of gallows humor.
    Jason Parham, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Orlando’s power provider plans to vote Tuesday on revamping its billing structure, changing incentives for when and how customers consume power, which has fueled a combative controversy over what’s best for local solar energy and electricity users.
    Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • In the previous three years alone, the police had responded to a dozen incidents featuring the quarrelsome man.
    Photographs Todd Heisler, New York Times, 19 May 2024
  • Stereophonic could be called a workplace drama, a quarrelsome family play or even an extended hangout, as much a vibe as a story.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Adjective
  • Some characters die violently in a warlike atmosphere, and the remaining ones struggle with their losses.
    Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
  • China is constantly searching for opportunities to take bits of territory and catch its opponent by surprise, without taking overt warlike actions.
    Brahma Chellaney, Foreign Affairs, 2 Apr. 2021

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“Hot-tempered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hot-tempered. Accessed 25 Dec. 2024.

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