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choleric

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1. choleric - Noun

2. choleric - Adjective

3. choleric - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Abounding with, or producing choler, or bile.

Easily irritated; irascible; inclined to anger.

Angry; indicating anger; excited by anger.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride; the phlegmatic emerged from indolence; and the melancholy who has dismissed avarice, suspicion and asperity. Johann Kaspar Lavater

A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor. Joseph Addison

That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. William Shakespeare

Choleric men are blind and mad. Portuguese Proverb

From a choleric man withdraw a little; from him that says nothing for ever. English Proverb

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