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Angriest

Angry \An"gry\, a. [Compar. Angrier; superl. Angriest.] [See Anger.]

  1. Troublesome; vexatious; rigorous. [Obs.]

    God had provided a severe and angry education to chastise the forwardness of a young spirit.
    --Jer. Taylor.

  2. Inflamed and painful, as a sore.

  3. Touched with anger; under the emotion of anger; feeling resentment; enraged; -- followed generally by with before a person, and at before a thing.

    Be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves.
    --Gen. xlv. 5.

    Wherefore should God be angry at thy voice?
    --Eccles. v. 6.

  4. Showing anger; proceeding from anger; acting as if moved by anger; wearing the marks of anger; as, angry words or tones; an angry sky; angry waves. ``An angry countenance.''
    --Prov. xxv. 23.

  5. Red. [R.]

    Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave.
    --Herbert.

  6. Sharp; keen; stimulated. [R.]

    I never ate with angrier appetite.
    --Tennyson.

    Syn: Passionate; resentful; irritated; irascible; indignant; provoked; enraged; incensed; exasperated; irate; hot; raging; furious; wrathful; wroth; choleric; inflamed; infuriated.

Wiktionary
angriest

a. (en-superlativeangry)

WordNet
angry
  1. adj. feeling or showing anger; "angry at the weather"; "angry customers"; "an angry silence"; "sending angry letters to the papers" [ant: unangry(p)]

  2. (of the elements) as if showing violent anger; "angry clouds on the horizon"; "furious winds"; "the raging sea" [syn: furious, raging, tempestuous, wild]

  3. severely inflamed and painful; "an angry sore"

  4. [also: angriest, angrier]

angriest

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Usage examples of "angriest".

The column is illustrated by a photograph of him snarling at the camera, and is subtitled 'The Angriest Man in Holloway'.

The phone rings again as I'm taking my coat off, but David makes no attempt to pick it up, and everyone listens to Nigel, David's editor at the paper, attempting to attract the attention of the Angriest Man in Holloway.

He is no longer interested in his novel, and even if he were angry any more – which he isn't – he would not be able to vent his spleen in the local paper, because he has been displaced, dethroned, out-raged: there is a new, and even angrier, Angriest Man in Holloway now – which is as it should be, I suppose.

If the new columnist were not angrier than David at his Angriest, then he would be the Second Angriest Man in Holloway, and that would look a bit feeble on the page.

Lily was the angriest child I ever met—no, the angriest person I ever met.

To hear him say all this with unimaginable energy, one might have thought him the angriest of mankind.

The angriest mob, and the one moving with the most sense of purpose, was moving directly toward the orphanage where Alvin had been unable to resist showing off by one-upping Calvin's fixing of the man's foot.

He hadn't realized how bitter he was, nor did he know who he was angriest at: fate, his father, or the woman walking beside him who had abandoned him years ago.

The stars were beginning to fall thickly, as they do at Midwinter when the Goddess is angriest, when She remembers Her own thoughtlessness at the Creation, and flings stars burning across the night in defiance of the great Death.