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

His leadership style may be choleric, but that is not what caused him to fulfill his horrific fate.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2020

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

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman