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Definition
easily moved to anger; or characterized by anger- A choleric cop blew his top.
choleric = easily moved to anger
- Gordon was a man by nature ill-suited to be a schoolmaster: he was impatient and choleric.Maugham, W. Somerset -- Of Human Bondage
- If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him.Sun, Tzu -- The Art of War
- And let a man beware, how he keepeth company with choleric and quarrelsome persons; for they will engage him into their own quarrels.Bacon, Sir Francis -- The Essays
- a choleric outburst
- men of the choleric type take to kicking and smashing
- The choleric face which Mr. Meagles turned upon him smoothed when he saw who it was, and he put out his friendly hand.Dickens, Charles -- Little Dorrit
- That in the captain's but a choleric word
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.William Shakespeare -- Measure for Measure - ourselves are cholericWilliam Shakespeare -- The Taming of the Shrew
- you were so cholericWilliam Shakespeare -- The Comedy of Errors
- He had, in fact, been a favorite steed of his master's, the choleric Van Ripper, who was a furious rider, and had infused, very probably, some of his own spirit into the animal; for, old and broken-down as he looked, there was more of the lurking devil in him than in any young filly in the country.Washington Irving -- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- Go show your slaves how choleric you are,Shakespeare, William -- Julius Caesar
- ...cried the old gentleman in a choleric manner.Dickens, Charles -- Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty
- He is an elderly man, red-faced, white-haired, and choleric.Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan -- The Hound of the Baskervilles
- And as his temperament was choleric there were fellows who were actually afraid of him.Conrad, Joseph -- The Shadow Line
- The choleric M'Dougal took the lead in these railings, being, as has been observed, a little puffed up with the idea of being Mr.Irving, Washington -- Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains
- the unruly waywardness that infirm and choleric years bring withShakespeare, William -- King Lear
- I see his head,' exclaimed the choleric old man; 'damme, I see his head.Dickens, Charles -- The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club
- I fear it is too choleric a meat.Shakespeare, William -- The Taming of the Shrew
- On hearing this the regimental commander hung his head, silently shrugged his shoulders, and spread out his arms with a choleric gesture.Tolstoy, Leo -- War and Peace
choleric = angry
choleric = easily moved to anger
choleric = angry
choleric = easily moved to anger