hotheaded

Example Sentences

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Johnny, the youngest and most literally hotheaded of the group, is apt to light himself on fire when he can’t be bothered to find a flashlight.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2025

Bills that arrive from the House, in their view, tend to be hotheaded and in need of deliberate adult revision, if they are lucky enough to be considered at all.

From Slate • Mar. 21, 2024

Chicago Ebon is the one who embodies Richie, the hotheaded consigliere in “The Bear,” a scuzzily charismatic dude whose masculinity lands somewhere between woefully misguided and willfully abrasive.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2023

After a legal odyssey of nearly five years, the Justice Department decided last week not to reopen the federal criminal civil rights investigation of two hotheaded U.S.

From Washington Post • Jun. 16, 2022

Although the more hotheaded among us wanted to confront them, instead, we decided to fight fire with fire.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela