How to Use trigger-happy in a Sentence
trigger-happy
adjective
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But Roman, destroyed with grief, has embraced abject nihilism along with the trigger-happy thrill of sitting in Dad’s chair.
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Lauren Puckett-Pope,
ELLE,
16 May 2023
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Ricki Tarr is not a trigger-happy super-spy but a low-level field agent who happens to be a bit of a romantic gentleman.
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Elliott Smith and Chris Bellamy,
EW.com,
23 May 2024
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His novel of the same name features an urban standoff between a lawman and a trigger-happy outlaw with a citywide blackmail plot.
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Brett Williams,
Men's Health,
1 Aug. 2023
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As played by Paul Newman, William Bonney is a trigger-happy hothead who’s more misunderstood than evil.
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Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
13 Mar. 2024
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Worst off were grizzly bears, who overwhelmingly perished near roads—not because they were struck by cars, though that happened, but because roads pumped the woods full of trigger-happy humans.
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Ben Goldfarb,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 Feb. 2024
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Read Michael Fuchs's analysis on why diplomacy is the most realistic option for dealing with the trigger-happy rogue state.
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Foreign Affairs,
19 Jan. 2018
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The most notorious and admired of the gangster breed was the stylish and trigger-happy John Dillinger, a criminal so popular that the Hays office forbade Hollywood from producing any film based on his exploits.
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Thomas Doherty,
The Hollywood Reporter,
7 July 2023
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Such people may be jumpy, irritable, violent, trigger-happy, drugged out, avoidant, defeated, morose, or self-harming, for reasons that no one can recall.
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George Makari,
The New Yorker,
13 July 2023
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The book’s central argument is that civil rights litigation against individual officers would advance reform more effectively than the rare criminal prosecutions of trigger-happy cops or federal takeovers of local police departments.
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Paul Butler,
Washington Post,
17 Feb. 2023
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