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as in angry
feeling or showing anger
the constant harassment from telemarketers finally made her good and mad
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as in insane
unable to think in a clear or sensible way
the man who thinks he's been turned into a bug is clearly mad
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as in frantic
marked by great and often stressful excitement or activity
a mad rush to finish the shopping before Christmas
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as in stupid
showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment
her mad decision to quit a good job and run off to the big city with a man she barely knew
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as in anger
an intense emotional state of displeasure with someone or something
watch out, the boss has got a bit of a mad on just now
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as in to anger
to make angry
her endless excuses for not doing the work madded her overburdened coworkers
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Recent Examples of mad
Renae Gregoire, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Given the ecstatic response from critics, thus far, to One Battle After Another, De Luca and Abdy would be mad not to.
—Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2025
And even if the scammers’ Sicari impersonations are waning, people are still sending money to the fake her and getting mad at her about it.
—Kim Velsey, Curbed, 18 Sep. 2025
Patel gets mad Patel, who had been getting pummeled by Democrats for nearly four hours, lost his calm demeanor.
—David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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Adjective
Don’t be mad at me for saying so, but from the buyer’s side, your ads are likely annoying.
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Arisu crawls onto a mound of rubble for momentary relief, and is met with an angry Banda.—
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According to police, Cooksey opened the door with blood on his hands and became angry and demanding.—
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The first game famously took thirst-trap renditions of the Greek pantheon and imbued each figure with an insane amount of charm.—
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Starting the competition off with a bang with the cape and then moving right into killing the athleisure [challenge] was just insane.—
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The slog of recovery is what's stuck with her even more than the frantic and frightening hours of the storm.—
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Less than an hour after making his frantic and somewhat miraculous 59-yarder, Butker missed the 33-yard extra point wide right.—
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The real star of this episode, however, was Gretchen Christine Beauté and her stupid Lara Croft outfit.—
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Among the colorful cast of rogues, villains, queens and clergymen, Andre The Giant stands out as the young suitor’s kind-hearted but stupid brute.—
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Yet Lupino brings such intensity and anger to her performance that the film’s register shifts into something far darker — so dark, in fact, that a prologue and epilogue Jack Warner insisted be added to make the movie more glamorous focus on a suicide attempt!—
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In the affidavit, a detective noted that Decker — who was divorced from his daughters’ mother — refused to sign a parenting plan that required him to seek mental health treatment and domestic violence anger management.—
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The decision infuriated Democrats in the House and fueled some calls from within the base for Schumer to be replaced at the top of the party.—
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Investigative reporting is bad enough; often what really infuriates him is jokes.—
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Mistaken as the murderer, Mary is stoned and buried alive in a shallow grave by the enraged townspeople.—
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The defense attorney, Michael Caesar, told jurors that Bragg became enraged after Gladney outed him as a gay man, and sought revenge.—
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Names and backstories are different, but in Pynchon’s text, stoner pianist Zoyd Wheeler is taking odd jobs and government disability checks obtained by staging regular psychotic episodes, when federal agent Brock Vond drives him and his 14-year-old daughter Prairie from their home.—
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Lockjaw is Bob's psychotic, longtime nemesis, who is obsessed with finding him and his daughter.—
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“Mad.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mad. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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