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or soreheaded
as in unpleasant
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as in killjoy
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Recent Examples of sorehead
Star Tribune, 16 Jan. 2021
The late 19th and early 20th centuries brought perhaps the golden age of the sorehead.
—Star Tribune, 16 Jan. 2021
Noun
In more modern times, before Trump, the most inflamed political sorehead also pulled off the most impressive political comeback.
—Star Tribune, 16 Jan. 2021
The late 19th and early 20th centuries brought perhaps the golden age of the sorehead.
—Star Tribune, 16 Jan. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sorehead
Adjective
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This is notable, given that post-Covid brick and mortar shopping has generally become so unpleasant, it’s given rise to the need for a personal shopper.—
Jennifer Leigh Parker,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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Less a song than a gag, every individual element is unpleasant: single-entendre lyrics; vocals and synths that aren’t even in the same key; and the less said about Space Cowboy’s guest verse, the better.—
Kristen S. Hé,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Anybody who asks for more from this new production, therefore, or who points out what is missing, risks the charge of being the merest killjoy.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
28 Mar. 2025
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Within the dog-button community, Horowitz is regarded as a killjoy.—
Camille Bromley Gabra Zackman Krish Seenivasan David Mason,
New York Times,
6 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Playing Dawn Summers, Trachtenberg joined the show in 2000, as Buffy's younger sister, who was at times bratty, sulky, and a bit of a klutz — but nonetheless offered a new and exciting sibling dynamic for the show to explore.—
Shania Russell,
EW.com,
26 Feb. 2025
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Horse race At the harness racing week on the Freehold Raceway in New Jersey: a reverse race with the sulky fixed in front of the horse - 1930.—
Contessa Brewer,
CNBC,
31 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The comedy community, meanwhile, was shocked, too, because Hoffman is mostly known as a curmudgeon.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
5 Mar. 2025
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Amid Baldwin’s chaotic home life with his seven young children, his wife Hilaria Baldwin tries to depict him as a lovable curmudgeon who’s often misunderstood because of his famously volatile personality.—
Martha Ross,
The Mercury News,
25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The United States’s three most powerful European allies disagree with its plan for ending the brutal, destructive stalemate in Ukraine, with Germany the most disagreeable.—
Dominic Green,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
21 Feb. 2025
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Sometimes that means confronting disagreeable people.—
David Plazas,
The Tennessean,
24 Apr. 2024
Noun
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Mention the team these days and the mind rivets on the malcontent star who wants out so badly he has been suspended three different times in January alone for conduct detrimental to the team (and to his own reputation, of course).—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
30 Jan. 2025
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Not everyone was friendly: Police officers harassed him, malcontents jeered, and his cross was stolen in — of all places — Assisi, Italy, where St. Francis had once lived.—
Clay Risen,
New York Times,
24 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Suddenly, the Republicans were the spoilsports who couldn’t take the joke, a position stereotypically held by politically correct liberals.—
Rebecca Jennings,
Vox,
9 Aug. 2024
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Millennial workers are increasingly becoming the office spoilsports, with young people increasingly likely to be in it for the money rather than for fun, as years of economic turmoil force them to keep their heads down, collect their monthly paychecks, and fight for a promotion.—
BYRyan Hogg,
Fortune Europe,
26 June 2024
Adjective
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Huck Finn and Holden Caulfield’s antisocial tendencies will find positive expression in a tenderness for those whom polite society brutalizes or neglects.—
Anahid Nersessian,
The New Yorker,
5 Mar. 2025
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Our friends are aware that their daughter is antisocial.—
R. Eric Thomas,
The Mercury News,
27 Jan. 2025
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“Sorehead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sorehead. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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