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anger | smolderingly |

As a noun anger

is remorse, regret.

As an adverb smolderingly is

with repressed anger or passion.

anger

English

(wikipedia anger)

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.

    Synonyms

    * (strong feeling of antagonism) * See also

    Derived terms

    () * angerful * angerless * angry * anger management * in anger

    Related terms

    () * anguish * anxiety * anxious

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause such a feeling of antagonism.
    • Don't anger me.
  • To become angry.
    • You anger too easily.

    Synonyms

    * (to cause anger) enrage, infuriate; annoy, vex, grill, displease; aggravate, irritate * (to become angry) get angry (see angry for more)

    References

    * * Notes:

    Anagrams

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    smolderingly

    English

    Alternative forms

    * smoulderingly

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • With repressed anger or passion.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=August 26, author=Gerald Howard, title=Mailer Gets Hammered, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The huge cast and crew included scene makers, hipsters, hangers-on, socialites, amphetamine-thin actress/models, black militants, the publisher Barney Rosset, the boxing champ Jose Torres, the Warhol superstar Ultra Violet, Mailer’s wife at the time — Beverly Bentley — two of his ex-wives, and a sprinkling of professional actors, including Hervé Villechaize and, most crucially, a smolderingly intense Rip Torn. }}