choleric
Example Sentences
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“Palace Fury at Megflix,” The Daily Mail said, though just how choleric the royal family was is open to debate.
From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2022
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
The knights of the Round Table were sent out as a measure against Fort Mayne, and the choleric barons who lived by Fort Mayne took the cudgels with the ferocity of despair.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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