Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who is easily offended, annoyed, or angered.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One whose head is sore.
- noun An irritable, discontented person; one who has a real or fancied grievance; in political use, a person who is dissatisfied through lack of recognition or reward for party services.
- noun Same as
bird-pox .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Slang, U.S. One who is disgruntled by a failure in politics, or the like.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who has a tendency to be
angry or to feeloffended .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who is peevish or disgruntled
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Examples
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He didn't claim directly to represent the Judge, and even went so far as to say that he had no objection to letting any "sorehead" in on the delegation who cared to go to the convention.
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Readers of the High School Boys Series will recall how Bert had been one of the leaders in the "sorehead" secession from the football ranks at Gridley High School.
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"sorehead" and we sublimate criticism by saying that "every knock is a boost."
A Preface to Politics Walter Lippmann 1931
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We might even suggest "anger management" as a solution to a perennial sorehead.
Lennard Davis: The Politics of Anger Lennard Davis 2010
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We might even suggest "anger management" as a solution to a perennial sorehead.
Lennard Davis: The Politics of Anger Lennard Davis 2010
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We might even suggest "anger management" as a solution to a perennial sorehead.
Lennard Davis: The Politics of Anger Lennard Davis 2010
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My comment was a gross oversimplification based on several soreheads from Chicago I have encountered, plus the ultimate sorehead Dennis Hastert.
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To do both is being a sorehead and vindictive and not very smart.
Quote Of The Day 2009
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Instead, he looks like the sorehead, full of himself, pain in the neck that Jesse Jackson was in 1988.
Quote Of The Day 2009
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Instead, he looks like the sorehead, full of himself, pain in the neck that Jesse Jackson was in 1988.
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