choleric

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Henry Shields, the choleric, John Cleese-like one, plays Mr. Darling and Captain Hook; Henry Lewis, the haunted teddy bear, is naturally Nana; and Jonathan Sayer is the headphoned idiot who barely belongs on a stage.

From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2023

Goodell’s imposition of “discipline” — an infantilizing word for adult workplace conduct — has veered between politically calculating and choleric.

From Washington Post • Aug. 2, 2022

Some of the most amusing hate mail I’ve ever gotten was from choleric New Yorkers in 1998.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2021

Her father, Giuseppe, a loud, choleric Triestine, always took a cold shower in the morning:

From The New Yorker • Jul. 22, 2019

The knights of the Round Table were sent out as a measure against Fort Mayne, and the choleric barons who lived by Fort Mayne took the cudgels with the ferocity of despair.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White