blustery

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If you get angry and blustery, your anger becomes the issue and nothing is resolved.

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  1. Blustering; blusterous; raging; noisy. A hollow, blustery, pusillanimous, and unsound [character]. Carlyle, Life of Sterling.

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  • The beginning of the week was very blustery, lambs all sheltering against the walls. —  PhotocatsEyes
  • Forced to raise two daughters without a mom in the house, Demarest does it the only way he knows how, as a blustery cop, and The amazing Diana Lyn rides him like a law-breaking anarchist every step of the way. —  Bright Lights After Dark
  • Dawn of War II is an enjoyable re-introduction to the blustery, clanging W40K universe. —  Latest from PALGN
  • If you get angry and blustery, your anger becomes the issue and nothing is resolved. —  Domine, da mihi hanc aquam!
  • A "Dream Team" of detectives - Andy Garcia as an Italian lothario, Alfred Molina as a blustery Brit and Yuki Matsuzaki as a Japanese tech whiz —  Cleveland Scene
 

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