Similar words: trigger, perhaps, happy, unhappy, rigged, bigger, happy-go-lucky, overhaul. Meaning: adj. 1. irresponsible in the use of firearms 2. marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid.
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1. Their police are worryingly trigger-happy.
2. Some of them are a bit trigger-happy — they'll shoot at anything that moves.
3. It ensured that no trigger-happy missile controller would fail to observe the safety precautions and attempt a little target practice.
4. Whooper swans are molested by irresponsible trigger-happy parties but here, at Bolam, they visit in peace.
5. A trigger-happy city where children as young as 10 roam the streets brandishing Kalashnikovs.
6. Some called him a trigger-happy candidate.
7. It's dangerous to have a trigger-happy person in charge of national security.
8. They were gunned down by members of the trigger-happy National Guard.
9. Poor or trigger-happy fighters are sometimes "retired", either sent home or given a menial task, such as sweeping floors.
10. You'll be a little trigger-happy on the 3rd and 4th, but do your best to keep your temper under control.
11. The new security forces are certainly trigger-happy. Some are proving undisciplined.
12. The problem is that trigger-happy intervention also has its drawbacks. It has long been accepted that retail depositors should be protected, to maintain their faith in the financial system.
13. The problem is that trigger-happy intervention also has its drawbacks.
14. The lasting we want it a trigger-happy general at the disarmament talks.
15. A debate even begins about whether the army is not getting a little trigger-happy in its nervous and no doubt terrified tension.
16. After all,(Sentencedict.com ) half-an-hour away in any direction there is a trigger-happy racist waiting for his big day.
17. The investigator said the killings were the result of poor procedure by trigger-happy police rather than premeditated murder.
18. Texans rode big Kentucky horses, did not parley or give presents, wore home-spun clothes dyed butternut, and were trigger-happy.
19. Some Iraqis see things differently. The Economistsays that while Iraqis may dislike foreign soldiers, "they dislike evenmore the foreign armed men they often regard as more trigger-happy andbullying."
20. Those young teenagers are carrying machine guns, and they feel trigger-happy.
21. On the other side, the incident shows a Chinese government that is dangerously trigger-happy, willing to wage economic warfare on the slightest provocation.
22. In the cities there were strict curfews , empty hotels, abandoned streets and office buildings, looters, trigger-happy patrols, and all the rest. (War and Remembrance, by Herman Wouk.
23. Marines kicking down doors and murdering men, women and children in their pyjamas: nothing could better reinforce the caricature of trigger-happy superpowerdom on the rampage.
24. They are the police force that keeps the immune system from becoming trigger-happy.
25. "On the other side, the incident shows a Chinese government that is dangerously trigger-happy, willing to wage economic warfare on the slightest provocation, " he added.
26. In those months, as the fighting escalated, concern about careless, trigger-happy Americans was rising in Afghanistan.
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