cheesed off

chiefly British
as in angry
feeling or showing anger I was really cheesed off that they made me go to the back of the queue

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Adjective
  • As a result, Black individuals were beaten at random by angry mobs throughout the nation’s capital, including outside of the White House, according to BlackPast, which reported police didn’t intervene.
    Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 22 Jan. 2025
  • One protester was shot to death by a Capitol police officer while at the head of an angry mob pushing through a door.
    The Editors, National Review, 22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Over 70 missiles, including ballistic ones, and more than a hundred attack drones.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
  • More than 70 missiles, including ballistic ones, and more than a hundred strike drones.
    David Brennan, ABC News, 25 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Gabriela Cowperthwaite Twitter aside, there’s no better way to get indignant in a short amount of time than by watching Blackfish, Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s documentary look into the world of captive killer whales.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
  • If Wired of the 2010s was the cheerful herald of a shiny, happy future (not a judgment!), this piece is its indignant child, pointing accusingly at the mess.
    Longreads, Longreads, 20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Everton had many mad weeks under former owner Farhad Moshiri, but this one has rivalled them.
    Patrick Boyland, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The elaborate choreography and colorful vision match Vincente Minnelli’s style but underneath carry a delirious energy equal to Ken Russell’s maddest visions of neurotic excess.
    Armond White, National Review, 10 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Senate Democrats are furious that President-elect Trump has reached out to conservative Justice Samuel Alito amid a push by Trump for the high court to halt his criminal sentencing.
    Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 10 Jan. 2025
  • After winning the division to host the championship game, Boston owner and franchise founder George Preston Marshall was furious with the local fans and decided to move the championship game away from his home field to a neutral location: The Polo Grounds in New York.
    Mark Puleo, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • The two initiatives appeared to both panic and infuriate Kagame, who viewed them as part of a joint attempt by Tshisekedi and Museveni to sideline him economically and strategically.
    Michela Wrong, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2023
Adjective
  • As soon as the decision is made, Teeny is hopping mad.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Russian officials were hopping mad when Biden went ahead anyway.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
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“Cheesed off.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cheesed%20off. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.

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