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half-angry

  • a word derived from angry.
    angry
    adjective
    feeling or showing anger or strong resentment (usually followed by at, with, orabout ): to be angry about the snub.

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With this half-angry, half-frightened shout to "go away," the Aborigines greeted the first fleet of British ships that ferried white convicts to colonize Australia in January 1788.

From Time Magazine Archive

All over the U.S. the people said the same things to each other: simple words of half-angry disbelief, of loss, of sorrow.

From Time Magazine Archive

He turned from the window, frowning, an odd, half-angry expression on his face.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

I exclaimed, half-amused and half-angry at the success of such a vagabond.

From Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II by Huth, Alexander

He felt half-angry that she had so easily led him on to waste time in talking of indifferent topics.

From The Tree of Knowledge A Novel by Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie