hotheaded

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Recent Examples of hotheaded His story is super interesting; he was seemingly plucked from nowhere, was long viewed as a hotheaded liability, is still sometimes seen as the grit to Saliba's polish, but is an absolutely class player and the emotional heartbeat of this team. James McNicholas, The Athletic, 10 Feb. 2025 Ledbetter’s struggles with her hotheaded son, as well as her triumphs as an accomplished ballroom dancer outside of work, also get a half-hearted treatment. Tomris Laffly, Variety, 5 Jan. 2025 The Blue Bloods spinoff follows Wahlberg's hotheaded detective Danny Reagan, the oldest living son of NYPD Commissioner Frank Reagan (Selleck). Randall Colburn, EW.com, 24 Feb. 2025 Aside from hotheaded Ted and maybe Davis’ coolly ambitious Erica, almost none of the characters have distinctive personalities. Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hotheaded
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hotheaded
Adjective
  • The dynamic changes from drag dialogue to an aging aristocrat-wannabe and her impetuous male ingenue.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 10 June 2025
  • Crisp, curly hair indicates a hasty, somewhat impetuous and rash character.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 June 2025
Adjective
  • Aybar-Berroa also has a criminal history in New York City that includes arrests for second-degree reckless endangerment in May 2023 and fourth-degree felony grand larceny and petit larceny in March and April 2024, officials said.
    Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 25 July 2025
  • He is charged with two counts of first-degree reckless homicide as a party to a crime in the teens' shooting deaths.
    Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 24 July 2025
Adjective
  • Merz, 69, is impulsive, prickly under pressure and occasionally leans into populist bluster.
    Sebastian Shukla, CNN Money, 26 June 2025
  • Unlike reckless risk-taking, which is impulsive and uninformed, calculated risk should be strategic and intentional.
    Vikram Joshi, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
Adjective
  • Pedal-assist Citi Bike riders are often as thoughtless in their thwarting common-sense safety rules.
    Steve Cohen, New York Daily News, 13 July 2025
  • In fact, read any news report of a flight diversion, and chances are there's a thoughtless passenger behind it – someone who didn't want to share the overhead bin space, insisted on jamming their seat all the way back, or didn't want to wait to use the bathroom.
    Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The 44-year-old Texan has worn badass on his sleeve from the get-go, cutting the coolest figure in country music for the better part of a decade in his brash voice, hard-living lyrics, and modern long-haired outlaw.
    Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 25 July 2025
  • He’s known for brash takes on politics and appears to relish taking down moralists and elitists.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 20 July 2025
Adjective
  • The upshot is that trying to sidestep the riddle of how to cope with AI’s compassionate intelligence is imprudent.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
  • Prevost has already had a showbiz publicist offer to represent him, and a journalist stop by post-interview to give him tips on what is imprudent to say on live TV—such as his imminent travel plans.
    Belinda Luscombe, Time, 1 July 2025
Adjective
  • Just don't get overconfident and overtax the motor on thick, glutinous batter—or keep this running for long mixing times above 10 minutes.
    Matthew Korfhage, Wired News, 29 June 2025
  • First appearing in Street Fighter Alpha in 1995, Hibiki is consistently portrayed as an overconfident, arrogant and utterly feeble character.
    Justin Kroll, Deadline, 26 June 2025
Adjective
  • But while Martinez no longer is CPS CEO, that’s a foolhardy assumption so long as that pension fund solely is the city’s legal responsibility.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 2 July 2025
  • Hammack should have replied to Smith that a central banker planning something as complicated as the cost of credit would be as foolhardy as a president planning Harvard’s class of 2029, multiplied by many millions.
    John Tamny, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025

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“Hotheaded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hotheaded. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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