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conniption

noun as in temper

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After the Inflation Reduction Act passed Congress without a single Republican vote, GOP lawmakers threw a conniption over the IRS appropriation.

Then there are desperately stupid ones, like the right wing’s collective conniption over Bud Light sending transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney a single can of oat soda with her face on it.

From Salon

It all would give the screenwriting guru Robert McKee a conniption.

And yet, in his election night speech, he was having a little whiny baby conniption fit.

From Slate

DeSantis threw a conniption last year when then-Disney Chief Executive Bob Chapek impudently expressed disapproval of the governor’s latest effort to pander to his far-right base, the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law aimed at suppressing classroom discussions of gender issues.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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