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Definition
feeling or showing extreme anger
- If it had not continued he would have felt like an irate ticket-holder at a prize-fight where the principals refused to mix it up.1.2 — Spires and Gargoyles (34% in)
- Sloane, bringing up the rear, disclaimed all knowledge and responsibility as soon as the others were scattered inside; then as the irate ticket-taker rushed in he followed nonchalantly.1.2 — Spires and Gargoyles (80% in)
There are no more uses of "irate" in This Side of Paradise.
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