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Meanings of trigger-happy in English
Synonyms
Examples for "violent"
Examples for "violent"
1
However, some of the recently freed members still defend their violent past.
2
Communities have a right to be protected from crime, especially violent crime.
3
The early days of planetary solar systems can be violent times indeed.
4
Crime -particularly violent crime -is a plague on South Africa.
5
Previous protests triggered violent clashes between demonstrators and police earlier this year.
1
Earlier efforts produced fierce clashes at sea with anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd.
2
Britain's emergency anti-terrorism legislation has become law after days of fierce debate.
3
Battles in the streets are followed by fierce debates in the Assembly.
4
The noise was terrific; the sight was terrible in its fierce grandeur.
5
Iraqi forces expect a fierce battle against Islamic State to retake Mosul.
1
And it's so powerful, it has no problem tearing right through them.
2
You see on the news where they've been tearing apart Ghanet's house?
3
You cannot uproot all of my work without tearing down every building.
4
The effort of tearing open the poly wrapper set my heart pounding.
5
I was thrilled when I heard her inside tearing the house apart.
1
Emily drank in the vehement flow of words with delight and fear.
2
You appear to me too vehement; you take the matter too seriously.
3
They are also increasingly vehement in their demands for wine and cigarettes.
4
He was vehement and fierce often; he was coarse and violent often.
5
As the wine circulated, the abuse of the Cardinal became more vehement.
Usage of trigger-happy in English
1
The Sisters can be a bit trigger-happy with anyone they don't know.
2
The Nips are all trigger-happy, just waiting for an incident to happen
3
Some of these small town officers tend to be a little trigger-happy.
4
One of the cops must be trigger-happy, shooting at shadows or ghosts.
5
It's not long ago we used to mock trigger-happy foreign tourists.
6
A trigger-happy culture and long-running Muslim and communist insurgencies add to election tensions.
7
A depressed, alcoholic, trigger-happy acrobat with a gift for gratuitous violence.
8
The police are sometimes trigger-happy, I forget whether it's one lump or two.'
9
A trigger-happy culture and long-running Muslim and communist insurgencies add to the bloodshed.
10
A police investigation has now been opened against the trigger-happy hot-head.
11
It hadn't chosen to be born in trigger-happy Florida rather than Southeast Asia.
12
Suppose he broke surface right in front of a flock of trigger-happy Enforcers?
13
Good thing too, because I had seen how trigger-happy the Monster Control Bureau was.
14
Fifteen years later, trigger-happy players are finally getting their wish.
15
So three: Kamenko, my trigger-happy bandit, why are you firing guns in our house?
16
He can be very trigger-happy, and he's known to be somewhat aggressive with it.