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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hot-headedness
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But all of that is in addition to his defense, his rebounding, his slashing, his voice, his pugnacity.
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Trump had won by fifty-three points there in 2016, and Greene’s paranoid pugnacity seemed like a good fit, if voters could stomach an outsider.
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Yakkity’s impulsiveness and wisecracking jokes provide the laughs, while Keo’s rivalry with his father (and his crush on Lemony) ground the show with genuine emotional dynamics.
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That impulsiveness was on display last year when the president pushed the Texas state legislature to gerrymander its electoral maps before the midterms in the hope of maintaining Republican control of Congress.
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Symptoms include extreme fatigue, impaired performance, headache, irritability, nausea, dizziness, cramping and dehydration.
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Heat exhaustion symptoms include headache, nausea, dizziness, weakness, irritability, thirst, heavy sweating, high body temperature and decreased urine output.
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His impulsivity, his immaturity, his lack of curiosity about anything going on around him.
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The behavioral symptoms—like self-harm, impulsivity, and extreme mood swings—tend to improve first, Masland says.
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The previous year, troubled by the growing belligerence of the internet crowd, Atkin had enrolled in self-defense training in her neighborhood.
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Observing how authenticity manifests as uncompromising, or how candor manifests as belligerence, for example, is an important starting point in discovering Integrity.
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And yet, Washington responded to Genet not with rashness and bravado but with restraint made public law.
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His audacity and her rashness might surprise some.
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This action demonstrates the president’s monumental cruelty, total lack of empathy and compassion, pathological narcissism, boundless vengefulness, abysmal ignorance and glaring immaturity.
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The thought of this act of petty vengefulness, and others like it, were later on to fill me with remorse.
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In spite of their original values of humanitarianism and neutrality, these organizations have been morally debased from within, using the language of human rights and international justice yet deploying it on behalf of autocracies and against the liberal democracies that created them.
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The ball got away from Witt at short in spite of his best efforts to keep it on the infield.
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“Hot-headedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hot-headedness. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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