Noun

(en noun)

A harsh criticism.

* 2012 , July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track

There was the sternness of an old-fashioned Tour patron in his rebuke to the young Frenchman Pierre Rolland, the only one to ride away from the peloton and seize the opportunity for a lone attack before being absorbed back into the bunch, where he was received with coolness.

Noun

A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)

, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger , leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.}}

(obsolete) Pain or stinging.

* {{quote-book, 1660, , 3= Mensa mystica, page=322, year_published=1717

, passage=It heals the Wounds that Sin hath made; and takes away the Anger of the Sore;

* Temple

I made the experiment, setting the moxa where the greatest anger and soreness still continued.