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hot-headed

adjective

  1. impetuous, rash, or hot-tempered


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Derived Forms

  • ˌhot-ˈheadedness, noun
  • ˌhot-ˈheadedly, adverb

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Example Sentences

“She was hot-headed, had her own way of doing things,” Gill said—and so, he left to form a separate militia group.

If he was getting hot around the collar, Ziffer said caustically, it was "partly because I'm one of those hot-headed Levantines."

Last month, Grigorieva, whom one source described as “hot-headed,” fired and replaced her lawyers.

Poor Decatur was shot dead in a duel in 1820 by a hot-headed officer whom he had offended.

That happens rarely; except with inflamed and hot-headed boys, whose passions are in their first innocence as well as violence.

He was the Genius, denounced, anathematized and exalted in turn by the hot-headed youth of Italy.

He was a reckless, hot-headed chap—brilliant, of course, but a slave to his impulses and his nerves.

Here and there hot-headed Zealots rose up to repeat the errors and the disasters of their predecessors.

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