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ranty

American  
[rant-ee] / ˈrænt i /

adjective

  1. having the character of a rant, or a long, vehement, or ill-tempered diatribe.

  2. inclined to ill-tempered ranting.

  3. British. excited or boisterous.


Example Sentences

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She described her husband as being "quite a ranty person" and that at the time said she had thought it was just talk.

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2024

Meredith Maran recently published a piece about women writers being pressured to make their heroines less raging and ranty, more familiar and fun.

From Slate • May 22, 2013

Blogs were an inevitable stage, and a useful one, but often they were narcissistic and ranty and you, the reader, had to sift through.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2013

Momentumby Saci Lloyd It could all be insufferably well-meaning and doom-and-gloom, if not downright ranty.

From The Guardian • Jul. 15, 2011

Well, it's the usual irate parent stuff, only a little more wild and ranty than anything Belasco would put over.

From Torchy, Private Sec. by Lincoln, F. Foster

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