choleric

Example Sentences

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A hot and dry person was thought to be choleric and ruled by yellow bile, associated with childhood and summer.

From Washington Post • Nov. 7, 2022

Griffith was one of those self-mythologizing frontier characters, a self-promoter of choleric temper and roller-coaster fortunes; the “colonel” title itself is of murky origin, perhaps from some brief spell with the California National Guard.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2022

Her father, Giuseppe, a loud, choleric Triestine, always took a cold shower in the morning:

From The New Yorker • Jul. 22, 2019

Despite choleric issues on the floor, perhaps the best news in the House is that neither Maloney nor Pingree deserted the chair.

From Fox News • Jul. 17, 2019

The knights of the Round Table were sent out as a measure against Fort Mayne, and the choleric barons who lived by Fort Mayne took the cudgels with the ferocity of despair.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White