half-angry
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a word derived from
angry.
angryadjectivefeeling or showing anger or strong resentment (usually followed by at, with, orabout ): to be angry about the snub.
Example Sentences
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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
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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
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He turned from the window, frowning, an odd, half-angry expression on his face.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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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