choleric

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Testy, choleric, and quarrelsome, with a high sense of honour, and a keen perception of insult, very modest and very proud, he was not likely to feed with wholesome appetite upon the unsavoury annoyances which were the daily bread of a chief commander in the Netherlands.

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  1. adjective Easily angered; bad-tempered.
  2. adjective Showing or expressing anger.

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  • My struggles have made me anxious, indolent, choleric, and despondent. —  CVSTOS FIDEI
  • And when it has come time -- for one or two to be realistic sensible and as a choleric pragmatic leader should be --- take a hold with boldness with a strong -- reassured strident voice that is needed to lead to command to hard charge or retreat surrender in defeat who makes that call? —  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
  • One feels the emotion of the song - the different colors of sanguine, choleric, melancholic and even phlegmatic. —  baratillo @ cubao : www.baratillo.net
  • He classified four types of human temperaments: plegmatic, choleric, sanguine, and melancholic. —  The Free Information Society
  • He is elderly, fragile, physically much abused in life, choleric, and seemingly in decline. —  Moon of Alabama
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irascible ·  irritable ·  excitable ·  moody ·  testy ·  touchy ·  quarrelsome ·  splenetic ·  combative ·  captious ·  headstrong ·  fractious
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  1. Early modern English colerick, from Middle English colerik, colrik, bilious, from Old French colerique, French colérique = Provencal coleric = Spanish colérico = Portuguese colerico = Italian collerico, from Latin cholericus, bilious, from Greek χολερικός, of or like cholera, from χολέρα, cholera: see choler, cholera, etc.
  2. from cholera + -ic. Cf. choleric.
 

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/ˈkɑlərɪk/
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