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Riled   /raɪld/   Listen
Riled

adjective
1.
Aroused to impatience or anger.  Synonyms: annoyed, irritated, miffed, nettled, peeved, pissed, pissed off, roiled, steamed, stung.  "Feeling nettled from the constant teasing" , "Peeved about being left out" , "Felt really pissed at her snootiness" , "Riled no end by his lies" , "Roiled by the delay"


Rile

verb
(past & past part. riled; pres. part. riling)
1.
Cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations.  Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, vex.  "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves"
2.
Make turbid by stirring up the sediments of.  Synonym: roil.





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"Riled" Quotes from Famous Books



... didn't mean it that way at all," said the man. "I beg your pardon, I'm sure. But a bobcat won't hardly ever attack a grown person, unless it's cornered. I reckon this one must have been riled about suthin' and thought to claw up the tots a bit. I happened to be around, so I jest natcherally plunked him—beggin' your ...
— The Moving Picture Girls Under the Palms - Or Lost in the Wilds of Florida • Laura Lee Hope
... bundles off to the witness-box, and takes some outlandish oath or other with immense gusto, after which he starts telling the Jury a long rambling rigmarole, and is awfully riled when the old Judge pulls him up, which he does about every other minute. This is the sort of thing ...
— Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. • F. Anstey
... "Riled, mister? Jest a little bit, eh? All right. You'll cool down by the time I've got the custom-house chap here, and then we ...
— The Golden Magnet • George Manville Fenn
... says, 'Look-a-heah!' she says, 'I want you niggers to understan' dat I wa'n't bawn in de mash be fool' by trash! I's one o' de ole Blue Hen's chickens, I is!' an' den she clar' dat kitchen an' bandage' up de chile herse'f. So I says dat word, too, when I's riled. ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... sorry I riled you, Sergeant," said Imbrie with a grin. "I was a bit carried off my feet by the situation. I'll be more careful hereafter. Untie this ...
— The Woman from Outside - [on Swan River] • Hulbert Footner


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