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wroth
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synonyms: acrimonious, choleric, irascible, acerbic, splenetic, in a wax ???
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Definition:angry; wrathful
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The commanding Colonel was wroth and shouting at Yossarian that he would not permit his patients to take indecent liberties with his nurses.
Joseph Heller. Catch-22, p.293 (1961)
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We strive, as did the houndes for the bone;
They fought all day, and yet their part was none.
There came a kite, while that they were so wroth,
And bare away the bone betwixt them both.
Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems
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Meanwhile, turning with a single movement and as though he were carved out of a solid block towards the indiscreet musician, the Duc de Guermantes, fronting his suppliant, monumental, mute, wroth, like Jupiter Tonans, remained motionless like this for some seconds, his eyes ablaze with anger and astonishment, his waving locks seeming to issue from a crater.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 4]
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