as in angry
feeling or showing anger I've been waxing wroth all afternoon!

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Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Lina, however, was furious, accusing her sister-in-law of ruining the video and sabotaging her work.
    Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • The rest of the attack involved ballistic or cruise missiles.
    Robert Birsel Shane Croucher John Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
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“Wroth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wroth. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.

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