Thesaurus / anger
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Former eBay chief executive officer Devin Wenig, who isn’t charged, last year texted a colleague expressing worry and anger over the unflattering coverage.
FOUR EX-EBAY EMPLOYEES TO ADMIT GUILT IN CYBERSTALKING PLOTVERNE KOPYTOFFSEPTEMBER 23, 2020FORTUNEThe most successful trickle-up campaigns of the last decade have been inspired not by fear, or anger, but by excitement.
CLIMATE ACTION: FEAR HASN’T MOTIVATED PEOPLE, SO LET’S GET THEM EXCITEDMATTHEWHEIMERSEPTEMBER 22, 2020FORTUNEMartin Luther King’s struggle for civil rights was motivated as much by anger at injustice as by love.
PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY AGREE – YELLING AT PEOPLE WHO AREN’T WEARING MASKS WON’T WORKLGBTQ-EDITORSEPTEMBER 21, 2020NO STRAIGHT NEWSAdditionally, if your family suffers from a lack of privilege, it’s essential to talk about how to handle the anger that comes along with discrimination.
HOW TO TALK TO KIDS ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS AND OTHER BAD NEWSSARA KILEY WATSONAUGUST 6, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCEOne source of anger for the defund movement was that Faulconer had proposed an SDPD spending increase, even though the city’s budget was shrinking from the pandemic.
POLITICS REPORT: VACATION RENTALS? IT’S JUST LIKE OLD TIMES!SCOTT LEWIS AND ANDREW KEATTSJULY 4, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGOLater, amid days of sustained anger, Council President Georgette Gómez and Montgomery both said they wanted to make a cut of some kind, but didn’t have the votes.
DESPITE RECENT BUDGET VOTE, REFORMERS SEE SDPD CUTS AS INEVITABLEANDREW KEATTSJUNE 23, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGOAfter reading an ancient guide to anger management by the Roman Stoic Seneca, Stephen wonders if the philosopher’s 2000-year-old advice can help people today keep their cool.
WHAT IS THE OPTIMAL WAY TO BE ANGRY? (NSQ EP. 2)REBECCA LEE DOUGLASMAY 25, 2020FREAKONOMICSInstinctively he tried to hide both pain and anger—it could only increase this distance that was already there.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOODThen she put her anger from her; put from her, too, the insolence and scorn with which so lavishly she had addressed him hitherto.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINISay that my anger has no bounds—that my heart is breaking—will break and kill me, if he persists in his ingratitude and cruelty.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO ANGER
- abet
- abrade
- affront
- aggravate
- anger
- annoy
- bother
- bug
- chafe
- enrage
- exasperate
- exercise
- foment
- fret
- gall
- get
- get on one's nerves
- get under one's skin
- grate
- hit where one lives
- incense
- incite
- inflame
- infuriate
- insult
- irk
- irritate
- madden
- make blood boil
- make waves
- nag
- offend
- perturb
- pique
- put out
- raise
- rile
- roil
- ruffle
- set
- set on
- try one's patience
- upset
- vex
- whip up
- work into lather
- work up
- animates
- arouses
- awakens
- begins
- bestirs
- brings about
- brings down
- brings on
- brings to one's feet
- builds up
- calls forth
- causes
- challenges
- draws forth
- electrifies
- elicits
- enthuses
- excites
- fires
- fires up
- galvanizes
- generates
- gives rise to
- incites
- induces
- inflames
- innervates
- innerves
- inspires
- instigates
- kindles
- leads to
- makes
- motivates
- moves
- occasions
- piques
- precipitates
- primes
- produces
- promotes
- prompts
- quickens
- rallies
- rouses
- rousts
- stirs
- suscitates
- thrills
- titillates
- titivates
- wakens
- whets
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