ired

past tense of ire

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for ired
Verb
  • When my friends found relief, they were thrilled—and infuriated.
    Melanie Thernstrom, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • By the second half, the two teams meandering about the pitch infuriated everyone not on the pitch.
    David j. Neal, Miami Herald, 24 June 2026
Verb
  • The story enraged campus and district officials and played a role in Stapleton’s ousting, despite a later retraction.
    Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2026
  • The film’s director, uptight Euro expat Max (Christoph Waltz), is initially enraged by their hijacking of the shoot, but his studio fatcat bosses (both voiced by Jeff Bridges) love the unhinged results.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 22 June 2026
Verb
  • They also have been angered by Kennedy’s attempts to link vaccines to autism, going against decades of research that show no such link, and his framing of autism as a debilitating disease.
    Annie Ma, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • They've also been angered by Kennedy's attempts to link vaccines to autism, going against decades of research that show no such link, and his framing of autism as a debilitating disease.
    ABC News, ABC News, 1 July 2026
Verb
  • Others are annoyed that its ambiguous language will create confusion over how — or if — the state will enforce compliance.
    Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 27 June 2026
  • David goes on a tour of the past 250 years and is deeply annoyed by every facet of it.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 26 June 2026
Verb
  • They’ve been similarly outraged by the fecklessness of their own party leaders.
    Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 1 July 2026
  • The crime brought the civil rights struggle onto the national stage and outraged President Kennedy.
    Gary Fields, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
Verb
  • But the idea has irritated California’s billionaire class, and some have left the state in protest or threatened to do so.
    Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 29 June 2026
  • Hasslers, the researchers found, tended to be people who irritated the study respondents but whom the respondents could not escape.
    Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 15 June 2026
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“Ired.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ired. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.

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