choleric

Example Sentences

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“Palace Fury at Megflix,” The Daily Mail said, though just how choleric the royal family was is open to debate.

From New York Times

Show gang brutality, highlight people clinging to rafts made from rotted wood, make videos of dehydrated, choleric children fighting to live.

From Washington Post

A hot and dry person was thought to be choleric and ruled by yellow bile, associated with childhood and summer.

From Washington Post

Even outside politics, Mr. Jones’s choleric, wide-eyed style has influenced the way in which a new generation of conspiracy theorists looks for fame online.

From New York Times

Griffith was one of those self-mythologizing frontier characters, a self-promoter of choleric temper and roller-coaster fortunes; the “colonel” title itself is of murky origin, perhaps from some brief spell with the California National Guard.

From Los Angeles Times