What's the difference between angry and wrangle?

Angry


Definition:

  • (superl.) Troublesome; vexatious; rigorous.
  • (superl.) Inflamed and painful, as a sore.
  • (superl.) Touched with anger; under the emotion of anger; feeling resentment; enraged; -- followed generally by with before a person, and at before a thing.
  • (superl.) Showing anger; proceeding from anger; acting as if moved by anger; wearing the marks of anger; as, angry words or tones; an angry sky; angry waves.
  • (superl.) Red.
  • (superl.) Sharp; keen; stimulated.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Yet those who have remained committed have become ever more angry.
  • (2) But it still seemed unlikely, despite the angry and determined mood, that the kingdom would risk ground operations, informed sources said – not least because the main strongholds of Isis are far away in northeastern Syria and across the border in Iraq.
  • (3) He was angry that the journal had not asked him to review the paper, or at least comment on it, before publication.
  • (4) • Democratic senators were angry at what they saw as a House attempt to "torpedo" – Harry Reid's word – what they saw as a perfectly viable, bipartisan Senate agreement.
  • (5) Pretty much every major toy brand, as well as apps like Angry Birds and Talking Friends, are spawning “webisodes” on YouTube as well as traditional ads, which often sit side-by-side within the same channel.
  • (6) Thirty-two nursing students were shown silent films in which 10 normal and 10 schizophrenic women described a happy, sad, and an angry personal experience.
  • (7) I don't like it when people say, 'The youth are angry.
  • (8) But with this, they have managed to mobilise the young, and we are very angry.
  • (9) Fox will be accompanied by the sporting director, Hendrik Almstadt, on the back of the 1-1 draw against Wycombe Wanderers in the FA Cup on Saturday, when their failure to beat a League Two side culminated in angry scenes involving the away supporters.
  • (10) 12.35pm BST Want to feel depressed and a bit angry at modern football?
  • (11) The clashes between the moralistic Levin and his friend Oblonsky, sometimes affectionate, sometimes angry, and Levin's linkage of modernity to Oblonsky's attitudes – that social mores are to be worked around and subordinated to pleasure, that families are base camps for off-base nooky – undermine one possible reading of Anna Karenina , in which Anna is a martyr in the struggle for the modern sexual freedoms that we take for granted, taken down by the hypocritical conservative elite to which she, her lover and her husband belong.
  • (12) RBS chief executive Ross McEwan apologised to consumers: “To say I’m angry would be an understatement.
  • (13) They’re angry because they can’t afford to send their kids to college so they can’t retire with dignity.” One of the signs that voters still lack confidence in the US job market is the labor participation rate, which in 2015 reached its lowest point in 38 years.
  • (14) Conservative MPs and constituency chairmen have been handling hundreds of complaints from grassroots activists angry at David Cameron's desire to legalise gay marriage amid further defections from the party and resignations among rank and file members.
  • (15) Verbally abused children were more angry and more pessimistic about their future.
  • (16) But, as always, watch the Mail – and watch it fall into familiar angry mode.
  • (17) This is a dangerous moment for politics in Britain: it is not the moment to ignore or belittle the angry cry from voters telling us they are deeply sick of politics as usual.
  • (18) : Would you feel angry?, produced significantly more affirmative responses (reports of feeling angry) than non-inducing questions, e.g.
  • (19) This prompted an angry response from the bill's sponsors who accused opponents of using border security as an excuse to block any immigration reform.
  • (20) It was very tense, they were very angry, but we tried to be respectful, while explaining that I was doing my job taking photos.

Wrangle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To argue; to debate; to dispute.
  • (v. i.) To dispute angrily; to quarrel peevishly and noisily; to brawl; to altercate.
  • (v. t.) To involve in a quarrel or dispute; to embroil.
  • (n.) An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; a squabble; an altercation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As the wrangling over the body continued, police extended their investigations at the Cambridge Tsarnaev family home.
  • (2) The final sprint comes after a year of wrangling in Congress, against a background of noisy public meetings and demonstrations.
  • (3) Sikorski's comments were, it appears, made before the current wrangling over commission nominations heated up and in the context of a specific disagreement on benefits policy.
  • (4) "The biggest complaint that business has against this government is that they don't have a long-term strategy for growth, and that they have created huge uncertainty," says shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna, who cites the coalition wrangling over the energy bill, finally published last week, as an example of the mixed messages the government has sent out.
  • (5) Attorney Adam Streisand said the deal was closed Tuesday morning following weeks of legal wrangling between the team’s previous owner, billionaire Donald Sterling, and his estranged wife, Shelly.
  • (6) After more wrangling, she managed to get him transferred to a civilian prison, where she could visit him every week.
  • (7) Even before it hosted the 1884-5 Berlin Conference at which European imperial powers wrangled for control of Africa, Germany had enthusiastically embraced the spirit of colonialism.
  • (8) Slowly she built up a picture of chimp life in all its domestic detail: the grooming, the food-sharing, the status wrangles, and the fights.
  • (9) We considered also viral and autoimmunity theory and the possibility that these two hypothesis don't wrangle but complete them.
  • (10) When the cumulative financial effects of the tax rises and spending cuts for 2013 are variously estimated as a drop in GDP of between 4% and 6%, wrangling over the government debt ceiling is not a good idea.
  • (11) The decision also comes as Washington wrangles with whether to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline to transport crude from Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico.
  • (12) Republican leadership is frantically trying to wrangle support to open debate on repeal.
  • (13) But a committee is still wrangling over the constitution's makeup and a national vote on its formation is unlikely until late December – prompting concerns about when and how Egypt might return to electoral politics.
  • (14) I sure as hell don’t want to let people that want to kill us and kill our nation use our internet.” Chris Christie , meanwhile, was unimpressed by Cruz and Rubio’s wrangling over the intricacies of legislation.
  • (15) After seven years of legal wrangling, and lobbying by the boys' families, France's highest court on Wednesday overturned a previous ruling saying the case against the police officers should be dropped.
  • (16) The procedural wrangling was, in fact, a cover for points of serious, substantive disagreement.
  • (17) Indicators of levels of drug use in Sweden, which has one of the toughest approaches we saw, point to relatively low levels of use, but not markedly lower than countries with different approaches.” Endless coalition wrangling over the contents of the report, which has taken more than eight months to be published, has ensured that it does not include any conclusions.
  • (18) The decision came after months of political wrangling which came to a head in June when two boats carrying refugees capsized north of Christmas Island within a week of each other, killing at least 90 people.
  • (19) That sparked more legal wrangling, which led to a court of appeal victory for the Guardian, which was again challenged by the government.
  • (20) This baseless scaremongering is beneath Lord Owen and the British people deserve better.” Owen’s intervention comes after a week of wrangling between the two sides about the NHS.