apoplectic
Example Sentences
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Beijing’s apoplectic response to Takaichi’s perceived intervention in China’s affairs has included intense personal attacks on the new prime minister, often linking her with the militarism that fueled Japan’s brutal conduct in World War II.
“When my 8-year-old was 6, she was at a Whole Foods with my mother and inadvertently spilled a little water on a man’s shoe. And he became apoplectic and caused a scene,” Ling recalls.
From Los Angeles Times
The Dallas Cowboys owner was apoplectic when the Cowboys failed to trade into the first round for Lynch.
From New York Times
There, he fumes against the state, communes with his dying mother and nearly loses himself in an apoplectic fury that Lapid visualizes with whiplash camera moves and take-no-prisoners intensity.
From New York Times
Progressives will be apoplectic if the social spending bill starts to shrink or is delayed – even as the House mollifies the moderates with the infrastructure package.
From Fox News
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
