wrought up
Example Sentences
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He was being accused of some heinous acts by some late comers when he got emotional and wrought up about those things being leveled against him.
From Fox News • Oct. 4, 2018
I hear you, I assured him, as you do with folks who are wrought up and close to going off the deep end, and you’re hoping to avoid a scene.
From Washington Post • Apr. 29, 2015
But Mandelstam was too wrought up to be wary.
From Time Magazine Archive
The latter were too wrought up by their long isolation to say much.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had the sensation that the man was too emotionally wrought up over whatever it was that he had lost.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
