as in angry
feeling or showing anger
the coach was so apoplectic when the player missed the free throw that he threw his clipboard onto the court
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Recent Examples of apoplectic
Ukrainian officials have repeatedly waxed apoplectic at any reference to the American-Russian alliance that defeated Nazism.
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Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 8 May 2025
Several movie studio and streaming industry executives who spoke with CNN are downright apoplectic, my colleagues Brian Stelter and Jamie Gangel write.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 6 May 2025
Needless to say, the terrorist groupie’s apologists at Brown were apoplectic that this savage had been tossed out of the country.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 19 Mar. 2025
The Connecticut men’s basketball coach, who led the Huskies to the past two NCAA tournament titles, was almost apoplectic about his team’s first half effort in Friday night’s 71-62 loss to Creighton in the Big East tournament semifinals at Madison Square Garden.
—Tim Casey, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
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Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 8 May 2025
Several movie studio and streaming industry executives who spoke with CNN are downright apoplectic, my colleagues Brian Stelter and Jamie Gangel write.
—Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 6 May 2025
Needless to say, the terrorist groupie’s apologists at Brown were apoplectic that this savage had been tossed out of the country.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 19 Mar. 2025
The Connecticut men’s basketball coach, who led the Huskies to the past two NCAA tournament titles, was almost apoplectic about his team’s first half effort in Friday night’s 71-62 loss to Creighton in the Big East tournament semifinals at Madison Square Garden.
—Tim Casey, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for apoplectic
Adjective
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Freed of her caring duties, angry and uncertain about her future Karl gets on a Greyhound bus and heads to Las Vegas where Jean is working as a waitress at the El Cortez.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Aug. 2025
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The family defended themselves against an angry mob of hundreds of people who surrounded the house, throwing rocks and threatening the family, Duggan said.—
Dana Afana,
Freep.com,
14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The YouTuber Andrew Callaghan has been documenting off-kilter American politics since before the 2020 election, but the recent interview on his Channel 5 web show with an indignant Hunter Biden caught wide attention.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
18 Aug. 2025
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But Hunter speaks with the indignant passion of someone who made nearly $1.5 million selling his art during his father’s campaign and the early years of his administration.—
Boston Herald editorial staff,
Boston Herald,
23 July 2025
Adjective
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Lina, however, was furious, accusing her sister-in-law of ruining the video and sabotaging her work.—
Daniella Gray,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Aug. 2025
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The president is furious that Alina Habba, formerly one of his personal defense attorneys who was appointed to be U.S. attorney in New Jersey, came to the end of a temporary role, according to a federal judge.—
Kristina Karisch,
The Hill,
26 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Still, this is evanescent stuff, hardly weighty enough to get mad about with respect to the aforementioned problematic areas.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Aug. 2025
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Things become considerably more volatile when the actual shoot begins and Coppola’s Willy Wonka-like charm — as Plaza describes it — is put to the test by the demands of realizing his mad vision once and for all.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Even as Trump touted his plan for peace talks, Russia on Thursday launched one of its biggest aerial assaults so far this year, focusing on western Ukraine in the barrage of 574 drones and 40 ballistic and cruise missiles.—
Aamer Madhani,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Aug. 2025
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The rest of the attack involved ballistic or cruise missiles.—
Robert Birsel
Shane Croucher
John Feng,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Like across-the-board tariffs, which would eat into profit margins and infuriate investors.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN,
5 Mar. 2025
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The results, which are beautifully austere, flooded by sunlight but somehow cold, infuriate Van Buren, played with a masculine bluster by Guy Pearce, who sounds as if his idea of the Breakfast of Champions was a bowl of ground glass drowned in whole milk.—
Tom Gliatto,
People.com,
3 Jan. 2025
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