hothead

Example Sentences

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Yet the "hothead" in the headlines is now a head coach described as "Mr Calm".

From BBC • Oct. 6, 2025

A young hothead named Matteo was sick of playing nice.

From Slate • Dec. 15, 2024

This demeanor is unlike the passionate, hothead ready to tell Sokka or any man off in the original.

From Salon • Mar. 3, 2024

Andrey Rublev: A tennis hothead desperately searching for peace.

From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2024

Nothing radical, no hothead stuff, just ringing a few doorbells for Gene McCarthy, composing a few tedious, uninspired editorials for the campus newspaper.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien