hot-headed

adjective

1. impetuous, rash, or hot-tempered

Other Word Forms

• hot-headedly adverb
• hot-headedness noun

Example Sentences

“Please forgive me if I was somewhat hot-headed,” Khrushchev said, ending his speech with a smile.

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A driver who murdered a father-of-two by running him over in a "senseless act of hot-headed violence" has been jailed for life.

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Jailing him at Sheffield Crown Court for a minimum term of 26 years, Mr Justice Morris said the attack had been "a deliberate and senseless act of hot-headed and wanton violence" that resulted in the death of Mr Marriott and life-changing consequences for many others.

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A long career in sports journalism followed, including working for ITV's Grampian TV, where the closest he got to a fight was with Sir Alex Ferguson, the notoriously hot-headed manager for Aberdeen in the 1980s.

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Surely in the century-plus history of cinema, other actors have created characters as sexy, powerful and hot-headed as Taylor’s Perfidia, nine months pregnant and blasting away with an automatic rifle, but I’m not sure anyone else has ever packaged all three with such potency.

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Related Words

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• intense 
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• vehement 
• violent