hotheaded

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Recent Examples of hotheaded Popular on Variety The case may come down to which version of Baldwin the jury finds more credible: the hotheaded egomaniac who thinks the rules don’t apply to him or the consummate professional who was failed by those around him. Gene Maddaus, Variety, 8 July 2024 Instead, the new season focused on just two small towns — Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and Bartlesville, Oklahoma — that had dealt with hotheaded community problems following recent Pride celebrations featuring drag queens. Marah Eakin, Vulture, 31 May 2024 Adam Sandler will reprise his role as the hotheaded hockey player turned pro golfer in Happy Gilmore 2, Netflix announced. Mike Miller, EW.com, 15 May 2024 The impulsive Moon begins the day in hotheaded Aries, finding provocations everywhere. Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 6 May 2024 See all Example Sentences for hotheaded 
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  • The sometimes impetuous Nasser and the reserved and uncharismatic Hasan al-Hudaybi, the Brotherhood’s general guide (the top official) at this time, grew to hate each other in the years immediately following the revolution.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2018
  • Sheinbaum must walk a fine line between her constituents, who don’t want to see Mexico humiliated — or go broke — and the unpredictable, impetuous Trump.
    Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
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  • He’s become poised to the point of being unrecognizable from his Young Josh days as a gunslinging, sometimes reckless quarterback who sometimes took himself, his teammates and Bills fans on Sunday roller-coaster rides.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Frank Santoro with the L.A. County district attorney’s office argued the probation department was making the necessary improvements and releasing youth inside would be reckless.
    Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2025
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  • New York Jets League perception: This is seen as the toughest job because of an impulsive owner (Woody Johnson) and an unforgiving, relentless media market.
    Mike Sando, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Like humans, dogs who have been neglected or who have had some other major disruptive change to their environment can show impulsive aggression.
    Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 15 Jan. 2025
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  • Perhaps a bored retiree at home one New Year’s Eve will spot thoughtless kids shooting off fireworks one year.
    Penny Abeywardena, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
  • The hearing swung from thoughtless to scandalous when one representative suggested that the murderous hawk was a better mascot for Planned Parenthood than for New Hampshire.
    Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2024
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  • Deadline also learned recently that Gabriel Macht, who played the brash and suave super lawyer Harvey Specter on the original series, will reprise his role on the offshoot in a three-episode arc.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 24 Jan. 2025
  • But their debut feature swaggers with confidence through a brash and playful version of L.A. Genres are mashed together at will: western, action, romance, Grand Guignol.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
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  • After the March 19 incident, Huger, 61, was charged with a DUI and DWI, negligently driving a vehicle in a careless and imprudent manner endangering property, life, and person, as well as recklessly driving a vehicle in wanton and willful disregard for the safety of persons and property.
    Stephanie Wenger, People.com, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Noem has been an imprudent governor of South Dakota on COVID-19 policy and other issues.
    George Liebmann, Baltimore Sun, 22 Dec. 2024
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  • We Below Deck fans are truly blessed with no shortage of overconfident stews to stir up drama.
    Emma Soren, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Oren — handsome, overconfident — was an obvious contender.
    James D. Walsh, Curbed, 12 Aug. 2024
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  • Adhering to this absurd rule requiring a three-quarters supermajority of Democrats in order to act would be foolhardy in the extreme.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 10 Jan. 2025
  • This two-year mission was a foolhardy act of imagination that has utterly changed the music world, one that only Taylor Swift could have envisioned.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2024

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“Hotheaded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hotheaded. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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