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choleric

adjective as in irritable

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“Palace Fury at Megflix,” The Daily Mail said, though just how choleric the royal family was is open to debate.

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Show gang brutality, highlight people clinging to rafts made from rotted wood, make videos of dehydrated, choleric children fighting to live.

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

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Even outside politics, Mr. Jones’s choleric, wide-eyed style has influenced the way in which a new generation of conspiracy theorists looks for fame online.

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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.

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