How to Use hothead in a Sentence

hothead

noun
Definition of hotheadnext
  • Working on the project with such a hothead has been unpleasant.
  • As a younger man, he was known as a hothead who talked back to cops.
    — oregonlive, 3 Mar. 2020
  • One day, a fella is an extremist or a hothead on the left.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 30 Mar. 2023
  • One of football's hotheads, the 33-year-old has amassed no less than 24 red cards during his time in Spain's top-flight.
    — SI.com, 8 Sep. 2019
  • Gutierrez — the hothead in the video, who has since been terminated — joined in.
    — Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2021
  • He isn’t known as a hothead, and his disciplinary record is pretty clean.
    — Jonathan Tannenwald, Philly.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Bickle has shown over the decades a tendency to be a hothead, and his antics can rub some spectators the wrong way.
    — Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2021
  • So what comes next for our favorite hothead and her troubled romances?
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 10 May 2022
  • The guy, Moran said, was relentless, and Moran had a reputation back then for being a bit of a hothead.
    — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Lowry, once known as a hothead and a man who seemed destined to take a desultory path through the NBA, became the team’s conscience in this series.
    — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 13 June 2019
  • Orton was a bit of a hothead and got in a few in-game altercations during games in China.
    — Chris Hays, orlandosentinel.com, 25 July 2021
  • But embittered hothead Sean is in no mood for building bridges.
    — Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 June 2019
  • In the trio of all-time greats, he had always been cast as the hothead, the frothing ball of intensity that might explode at any moment.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 10 July 2022
  • The news stories described Momeni as a hothead with a quick temper and an appetite for cocaine.
    — Albert Samaha, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Adams’s supporters, for their part, called Jackson a hothead, a murderer, and a tyrant.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2017
  • Their traits are parceled out on a one-per-customer basis: Humphrey’s a patsy, King a worrier, Carmichael a hothead and Wallace a weasel.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Natasha smells something fishy and thinks Ivan is just desperate for a rose, but since Aaron is the hothead who cried wolf, pretty much everyone sides with Ivan.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2021
  • The scene is both frightening with a threat of violence that could erupt any minute (all the Don’s bodyguards are armed, including his hothead son) and rather funny.
    — Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Aug. 2019
  • The character was not a hothead but a himbo, a Presidential lunkhead.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Lensky, who dies in the ensuing duel, is definitely a hothead in the person of Pavol Breslik.
    — Dallas News, 2 Apr. 2022
  • Coltish, feral and passionately in love, Mr. Grigolo’s Mario is a true hothead.
    — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2018
  • The unintentional subtext seems to be: Bernardo was a Latino hothead, so his death doesn’t even matter to Maria all that much.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Josh is also the most innocuous, non-threatening version of a hothead.
    — Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Dunne was a good writer, a spirited gossip, an inspired raconteur, and a hothead with a chronic temper.
    — WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
  • One coach went as far as comparing his antics to famous tennis hothead John McEnroe.
    — Christopher Smith, al, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Sometimes being a dumb, violent hothead doesn’t pay off.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2021
  • And, for another first, her hothead temper and short fuse actually come in handy in dispatching yaoguai.
    — Katie Ward Beim-Esche, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Aug. 2017
  • Bob Corker is known around Washington as a sensible pragmatist, not a thin-skinned hothead.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Season 1 finds hothead team captain Roy Kent (Brett Goldstein), once a powerhouse, past his prime and too defined by his past to imagine life after football.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 19 July 2021
  • Enter Fassbender’s character, Thomas Rongen, a hothead with an alcohol problem and an emotional backstory which the movie keeps up its sleeve until halftime of the climactic game.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 10 Sep. 2023

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