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词汇 sorehead
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Definition of sorehead in English:

sorehead

nounˈsɔːhɛdˈsɔrˌhɛd
North American informal
  • A person who is in a bad temper or easily irritated.

    〈北美,非正式〉性情暴躁的人;容易发怒的人

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Some of them are remarkably eager to label anybody who asks the question an antiwar liberal loser sorehead.
    • Then, when Uncle Jack gave him the ten dollars, the man went to his room, apologizing for being such a sorehead.
    • Maurice Bendrix, the hero of Graham Greene's The End of the Affair, is one of modern literature's great soreheads.
    • If the accused is not dismissed, the good trooper will be dismayed and the malcontent and sorehead will be encouraged in his own insubordination.
    • Yet he makes a terrible mistake in treating the traditional civil rights leaders as soreheads because they attack him.
    • What it dances around is the flabbergasting tendency of all these cable-TV talking soreheads to be wrong about everything from primary votes to foreign wars.
    • He was called an ‘old-fashioned American sorehead.’
    • Many soreheads and unsympathetic people will probably cavil that this is pretty darn cool and lots of people don't get to go to Australia and experience such a beautiful land.
    • I really did, because if they boo you on the road, it's either because you're a sorehead or you're hurting them.
    • Well, what can you with a bunch of leftist soreheads?
    Synonyms
    irritable, irascible, fractious, fretful, cross, petulant, pettish, crabbed, crabby, crotchety, cantankerous, curmudgeonly, disagreeable, miserable, morose, peppery, on edge, edgy, impatient, complaining, querulous

Rhymes

warhead

Definition of sorehead in US English:

sorehead

nounˈsɔrˌhɛdˈsôrˌhed
North American informal
  • A person who is in a bad temper or easily irritated.

    〈北美,非正式〉性情暴躁的人;容易发怒的人

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Then, when Uncle Jack gave him the ten dollars, the man went to his room, apologizing for being such a sorehead.
    • If the accused is not dismissed, the good trooper will be dismayed and the malcontent and sorehead will be encouraged in his own insubordination.
    • What it dances around is the flabbergasting tendency of all these cable-TV talking soreheads to be wrong about everything from primary votes to foreign wars.
    • Yet he makes a terrible mistake in treating the traditional civil rights leaders as soreheads because they attack him.
    • Some of them are remarkably eager to label anybody who asks the question an antiwar liberal loser sorehead.
    • Well, what can you with a bunch of leftist soreheads?
    • Maurice Bendrix, the hero of Graham Greene's The End of the Affair, is one of modern literature's great soreheads.
    • He was called an ‘old-fashioned American sorehead.’
    • Many soreheads and unsympathetic people will probably cavil that this is pretty darn cool and lots of people don't get to go to Australia and experience such a beautiful land.
    • I really did, because if they boo you on the road, it's either because you're a sorehead or you're hurting them.
    Synonyms
    irritable, irascible, fractious, fretful, cross, petulant, pettish, crabbed, crabby, crotchety, cantankerous, curmudgeonly, disagreeable, miserable, morose, peppery, on edge, edgy, impatient, complaining, querulous
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