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trigger-happy
adjective as in combative
Example Sentences
But in his response at the panel’s meeting last week, McDonnell seemed to bristle at the notion his officers were too trigger-happy.
The Texas town’s megachurch in “The Hunting Wives” provides spiritual cover for trigger-happy hypocrites.
This trigger-happy litigiousness is lampooned in a satirical “60 Minutes” segment in which CBS-style anchors nervously report on protests against “the president, who is a great man.”
Instead of throwing Ripley into the grinder with a bunch of wisecracking, trigger-happy colonial marines, the story strands her on a prison planet and foundry where more than half the inmates view her as prey.
“I saw my boy brought into this world and, horribly, I saw him taken out of this world by a trigger-happy cop,” Ramirez’s mother, Renee Villalobos, said in the same statement.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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