angryish

comparative more angryish · superlative most angryish

1. informalSomewhat angry.

   He’s bald on top, with a round head, stubby nose, and tiny, angryish eyes.

   2011 July 5, Charles Stross, “Liz: It’s Complicated”, in Rule 34, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 282

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   His mouth was set and his eyebrows were drawn together in a scowl. “He’s terribly sensitive, really,” Camilla told herself. “He’s hating this business as much in his way as I am in mine. And,” she thought, “I daresay he’s angryish because I got such an awful shock when whoever it is came in like the Guiser and I daresay he’s even angrier because Simon Begg chased me again.”

   1956, Ngaio Marsh, “The Swords Again”, in Death of a Fool, Boston, Mass.; Toronto, Ont.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, section IV, page 209

   If the Universities and Left Review is one symptom of the distaste for conventional politics, the success of the United Nations Student Association is another. Where ULR is angryish, Oxford, and Left, UNSA is placid, Cambridge, and probably just right of centre.

   1959 January–March, W. T. Rodgers, “Politics in the Universities”, in William A[lexander] Robson, T[homas] E[dward] M[aurice] McKitterick, editors, The Political Quarterly, volume 30, number 1, London: Stevens & Sons, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 82