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angry adjective & verb. LME.
[from ANGER noun + -Y1.]
A. adjective.
Troublesome, vexatious. LME-M17.
Troubled, vexed. LME-L15.
Feeling anger or resentment, enraged, extremely displeased. (Foll. by usu. at, about a thing; at, with a person; that.) LME.
angry young man a young man dissatisfied with and outspoken against existing social and political structures, spec. any of several British playwrights and novelists of the 1950s expressing such dissatisfaction.
Jonson Where it concerns himself, Who's angry at a slander makes it true. H. E. Bates I had never been angry with her beforeannoyed sometimes,..but never more. D. Storey I was angry with him, angry that he should allow me to talk to him like this. C. Hampton I was still very angry about your not letting me stay.
Of a mood or action: moved or excited by anger. LME.
Tennyson A man's own angry pride Is cap and bells for a fool.
Revealing or expressing anger; fig. seeming to express anger. LME.
Dryden He sheathes his paws, uncurls his angry mane. J. Tyndall Angry masses of cloud. D. du Maurier The angry colour flooded her dead white face. W. Faulkner His face was not grim and neither cold nor angry. B. Malamud He heaved a last angry shovelful into the gutter.
b. Having the colour of an angry face, red. rare. M17.
C. Lamb His waistcoat red and angry.
Hot-tempered, irritable. arch. LME.
N. Rowe Honour, This busie, angry thing, that scatters Discord.
Of a wound, sore, etc.: inflamed, smarting. L15.
b. verb trans. Make angry. rare. LME.
angrily adverb LME.
angriness noun (rare) LME.