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adjective

Angry adj. (compar. angrier; superl. angriest)

Troublesome; vexatious; rigorous. (Obs.) "God had provided a severe and angry education to chastise the forwardness of a young spirit."

Inflamed and painful, as a sore.

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?"

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."

Red. (R.) "Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave."

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

... first time, he was falling in love; and then he grew grave, and tried to banish the dangerous thought. But when, day after day, amid all the business and the pleasures of his life, the "shape" still pursued him, instead of getting angry with it or growing weary of it, he opened his heart and took it in, and made it at home, and set it upon a throne, where it reigned supreme, diffusing delight over all his nature. But soon, too soon, this bosom's ...

— The Missing Bride • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth

... Indians. I told the general that the Indians were only some Pawnees, who had been out hunting and that they had merely played a joke upon us. I forgot to inform him that I had put up the trick, but as he was always fond of a good joke himself, he did not get very angry. I had picked up McCarthy's hat and gun, which I returned to him, and it was some time before he discovered who was at the ...

— The Great Salt Lake Trail • Colonel Henry Inman

... took it as the latter, and it appeared to call up an angry spirit. She was vexed almost to tears. Frederick ...

— Verner's Pride • Mrs. Henry Wood

... was not at all well disposed toward a government whose acts had inflicted upon her such bitter distress, such ruinous dislocations of her capital and labor. This angry discontent was much aggravated later by the War of 1812, into which, in the opinion of that section, the country was precipitated by reason of Southern domination in national affairs. And thus was, perhaps, ...

— Modern Industrialism and the Negroes of the United States - The American Negro Academy, Occasional Papers No. 12 • Archibald H. Grimke

... unfortunate affair," said he. "I'm angry with myself, and sorry for the poor child. But she'd no business here. As for Joe Morgan, it would take a saint to bear his tongue when once set a-going by liquor. I wish he'd stay away from the house. Nobody wants his ...

— Ten Nights in a Bar Room • T. S. Arthur

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