choleric

Example Sentences

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Henry Shields, the choleric, John Cleese-like one, plays Mr. Darling and Captain Hook; Henry Lewis, the haunted teddy bear, is naturally Nana; and Jonathan Sayer is the headphoned idiot who barely belongs on a stage.

From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2023

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

The innkeeper, who was a choleric gnome of poor disposition, looked out of the door.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman