ADJECTIVE
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marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid
vehement dislike
violent passions
in a tearing rage
fierce loyalty - irresponsible in the use of firearms
How To Use trigger-happy In A Sentence
- Even Winston Churchill, then the minister responsible, was shocked by the action of some trigger-happy pilots and vengeful ground troops.
- Andrea Seppi, a creative photographer from Germany, combines a trigger-happy attitude with propensity for perfection.
- The investigator said the killings were the result of poor procedure by trigger-happy police rather than premeditated murder.
- Marines kicking down doors and murdering men, women and children in their pyjamas: nothing could better reinforce the caricature of trigger-happy superpowerdom on the rampage.
- It exceeded the 4 x 6 inches allowed by the jail, so I was pleasantly surprised that it was not rejected by the trigger-happy mailroom.
- 'You intend, then,' Cloud demanded furiously, 'to let this girl put her naked hands and teeth up against four trigger-happy gunnies with DeLameters?' Masters Of The Vortex
- Assam is open to foreigners but some areas are riddled with bandits, while the ‘no man's land’ between unneighbourly India and Bangladesh is patrolled by bored but trigger-happy armies.
- But this has also been the season of trigger-happy owners and chairmen. Times, Sunday Times
- Europeans are so much more civilised than the trigger-happy cowboys across the pond.
- I'm getting trigger-happy with the remote control. The Sun
