Thesaurus / explosive
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But he marred it all by a temper so ungovernable that in Paris there was current a byword, "Explosive as Garnache."
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINIWith an explosive hiss, gray jets of live steam erupted from pipes around the edge of the room.
HOODED DETECTIVE, VOLUME III NO. 2, JANUARY, 1942VARIOUSAnything made of iron and containing high explosive and detonator will be welcome.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONThe gasoline used also gave off a gas of highly explosive character and one very likely to escape from leaky tanks or joints.
THE WONDER BOOK OF KNOWLEDGEVARIOUSIt is often difficult in serious situations to take these explosive monosyllables seriously.
FRDRIC MISTRALCHARLES ALFRED DOWNERThe Birmingham factories are feverishly busy making dum-dum and explosive bullets.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOL. 147, NOVEMBER 4, 1914VARIOUSShe was here, and the place was about to be blasted by some titanic explosive of the Croen science creation!
VALLEY OF THE CROENLEE TARBELLThen a heavy weight landed on my back, knocking the breath from my lungs with an explosive grunt.
A VIRGINIA SCOUTHUGH PENDEXTERRick and Scotty watched the placement of the nuclear explosive—a simple steel can, from the outside—in the big hole.
THE FLAMING MOUNTAINHAROLD LELAND GOODWINThey come from the engine—snorting, explosive sounds, as though it was clamoring for attention.
MY WONDERFUL VISITCHARLIE CHAPLINWORDS RELATED TO EXPLOSIVE
- capricious
- changeable
- cussed
- easily upset
- emotional
- erratic
- excitable
- explosive
- fickle
- fiery
- froward
- headstrong
- high-strung
- hotheaded
- hyper
- hypersensitive
- impatient
- in bad mood
- inconsistent
- irritable
- mean
- mercurial
- moody
- neurotic
- ornery
- passionate
- petulant
- sensitive
- thin-skinned
- ticklish
- touchy
- uncertain
- undependable
- unpredictable
- unreliable
- unstable
- variable
- volatile
- willful
- active
- agitated
- antsy
- anxious
- busy
- changeable
- changeful
- changing
- complex
- complicated
- confused
- disorderly
- disturbed
- explosive
- fidgety
- fluid
- flustered
- inconstant
- insecure
- kinetic
- mobile
- mutable
- on edge
- perilous
- perturbed
- precarious
- rattled
- restive
- restless
- shaken
- shaky
- shifting
- shook-up
- tense
- thrown
- ticklish
- troubled
- unbalanced
- uncertain
- uneasy
- unnerved
- unpeaceful
- unpredictable
- unquiet
- unrestful
- unstable
- unsteady
- variable
- wavering
- wobbling
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