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Angry   /ˈæŋgri/   Listen
adjective
Angry  adj.  (compar. angrier; superl. angriest)  
1.
Troublesome; vexatious; rigorous. (Obs.) "God had provided a severe and angry education to chastise the forwardness of a young spirit."
2.
Inflamed and painful, as a sore.
3.
Touched with anger; under the emotion of anger; feeling resentment; enraged; followed generally by with before a person, and at before a thing. "Be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves." "Wherefore should God be angry at thy voice?"
4.
Showing anger; proceeding from anger; acting as if moved by anger; wearing the marks of anger; as, angry words or tones; an angry sky; angry waves. "An angry countenance."
5.
Red. (R.) "Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave."
6.
Sharp; keen; stimulated. (R.) "I never ate with angrier appetite."
Synonyms: Passionate; resentful; irritated; irascible; indignant; provoked; enraged; incensed; exasperated; irate; hot; raging; furious; wrathful; wroth; choleric; inflamed; infuriated.






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"Angry" Quotes from Famous Books



... go to her, Mr. Dodd," said Lucy, turning a little pale. "Don't be angry; I will go directly"; and, having said this with an abject slavishness that formed a miraculous contrast with her late crossness and imperious chilliness, she put down her work hastily and went out; only at the door she curved her throat, and cast back, Parthian-like, a glance of timid ...
— Love Me Little, Love Me Long • Charles Reade

... almost every man, woman and child in Piacenza was on the banks of the river two miles away from the town. Finding that the Captain did not appear at the time he announced and that the crowd was getting angry, the agent slipped away and got back just in time to catch a train for Ferrara much farther down the river. Most of the crowd waited on the banks until dark, then returned and commenced to hunt for the agent; not finding him, they satisfied themselves ...
— The Story of Paul Boyton - Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World • Paul Boyton

... known that he was anywhere around, and the voice coming suddenly out of the unseen startled her so that her heart seemed to jump up into her throat. It made her angry, too. Only the moment before she had heard Rosa scream at Manuel, "You ain't my boss; shut your ...
— Georgina of the Rainbows • Annie Fellows Johnston

... remember there was a beautiful description of the spectre of a man drowned in the night, or, in the language of the old Scotch superstitions, seized by the angry spirit of the waters, appearing to his wife with pale blue cheek, &c. Mr. Home has no copy of it. He also showed us another ode, of two or three four-lined stanzas, called the Bell of Arragon; on a tradition that, anciently, just before the king of Spain died, the ...
— The Poetical Works of William Collins - With a Memoir • William Collins

... do not reach forth your hand for the food, but ask some one to help you. 5. Do not become peevish and pout, because you do not get a part of everything. Be satisfied with what is given you. 6. Avoid a pouting face, angry looks, and angry words. Do not slam the doors. Go quietly up and down stairs; and never make a loud noise about the house. 7. Be kind and gentle in your manners; not like the howling winter storm, but like the bright ...
— McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey


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