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trigger-happy
adjective as in combative
Example Sentences
Jace Lacob: While watching this, I kept thinking to myself that the grumpy, trigger-happy dad should be played by James Caan.
What the gun owner claims as self-defense often looks, on closer examination, more like trigger-happy recklessness.
The more details emerge, the more it looks as if Martin was hunted and killed by a trigger-happy bully.
But any action would be crushed by trigger-happy Republicans—and could cost votes in November.
Dale Peterson Gets Trigger-Happy Is it possible to take the Constitution too seriously?
However, a couple of trigger-happy vedettes let off their carbines at them, yelled, "The Rebs are coming!"
Uncle John provided our hunting excitement by turning out to be one of the trigger-happy types.
Suppose he broke surface right in front of a flock of trigger-happy Enforcers?
At least, he was reasonably sure that none of Klem Zareff's trigger-happy mercenaries would shoot him down coming in.
The man in charge saw Gilgamesh on the alarm screens and got trigger-happy.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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