1853 Ripley (Ohio) Bee 13 Aug. Amid such angries the day of election came.

1893 R. Kipling Many Inventions 328 An Army, Captain, are terrible in her angries—especialment [sic] when she are not paid.

1971 San Antonio (Texas) Express-News 12 Dec. 4 m/4 It would cost Adams six figures to buy it [sc. the contract] up... That's got to be a very large case of the angries.

1982 Amer. Motorcyclist Nov. 6/1 Listening to noisy truck campers drive up and down the adjacent road, I worked up a serious case of the angries.

2008 C. Krovatin Venomous 278 Even if your friend who..has angries like yours is the first person to throw a punch, you hold back.

1957 Observer 16 June 16/8 Why can't the young angries do the same sort of thing for television and TV personalities?

1959 Bookseller 7 Mar. 1133/1 The ‘beats’ are represented by Anatole Broyard..and Carl Solomon; the ‘angries’ by John Wain, Colin Wilson, John Osborne, [etc.].

2000 Z. Leader in K. Amis Lett. 513 Amis may also have disapproved of the ‘angries’ because of their stress on emotion or feeling and on the artist's inevitable or necessary alienation from society.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 773/2 I waxe crabbed, or angrye countenaunced. Je me rechigne.

1842 North of Eng. Mag. May 217 A glass was placed on the table by the angry-eyed Millicent.

1855 R. F. Burton Personal Narr. Pilgrimage to El-Medinah I. ii. 32 The angry-faced official communicated the intelligence to a large group of Anadolian, Caramanian, Boshniac, and Roumelian Turks.

1901 New Eng. Mag. Nov. 312/2 The white-faced, angry-browed young man who stood on the rear platform of President Caryll's car.

1946 H. Krause Thresher iv. 482 She crept back to the pew, to an angry-lipped Johnny and a pair of scared-faced boys.

2007 T. Green Football Genius (2008) 98 Troy eased partway behind Seth Halloway's broad back and looked out from behind him at the angry-faced coach.

1589 G. Peele Farewell 5 The brasen Trumpe, The angry sounding Drum, the whistling Fife.

1768 Key to Drama 8 The sky lost, almost imperceptibly, its native azure, and was forming into more angry looking clouds.

1883 Med. Rec. 27 Jan. 95/1 A pin-scratch on her finger became inflamed and angry-looking.

1977 B. Stein Dreemz (1978) 182 Middle Americans, overweight and angry-looking in their faded leisure suits and frumpy dresses.

1999 J. Jackson & W. F. Burke Dead Run viii. 157 Davis didn't like his looks—a big, angry-seeming guy.

1971 Guardian 14 Jan. 1 The ‘Guardian’ yesterday received a letter warning: ‘Robert Carr got it tonight were (sic) getting closer’... It..was signed ‘Communiqué from the Angry Brigade’.

1972 Daily Mail 3 Apr. 6/2 New infants, junior, secondary and university courses are all catering for—and creating—an ecological angry brigade.

1990 Independent (Nexis) 4 June 14 Rex's fourth wife was the tempestuous Welsh-born actress Rachel Roberts, a sharp contrast, and part of the theatre's ‘angry brigade’.

2003 Economist 12 Apr. 58/1 Like so much of the Muslim world, the country's North-West Frontier Province is angry. But here, the angry brigade is in government.

2018 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 19 May The German Red Army Faction, founded..in 1970—the same year as the Red Brigades in Italy and the Angry Brigade in Britain.

1708 Brit. Apollo 10–15 Sept. Angry-pen'd Maid.

1990 Boston Globe (Nexis) 2 Nov. 21 Silber..stoked the angry, white-male vote by hoisting up the Bush-Ronald Reagan dartboards of welfare, black drugs and bitchy women.]

1991 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 24 Mar. (Mag.) 4/4 The people who populated the citizens [sic] council meetings were mostly angry white males. So there's a real sense that the barricades were formed not only between black and white but between male and female.

1995 Guardian 20 June ii. 7/2 The Angry White Male backlash..has not materialised in the same way in Britain because the sort of preferential treatment encouraged in America is outlawed in this country.

2004 E. Alterman & M. Green Bk. on Bush vii. 125 The Republican ‘southern strategy’..permits Republican candidates to appeal to ‘angry white males’ while providing plausible deniability to the fair-minded of both sexes.

1993 Sun (Baltimore) 12 Apr. 1 d/2 In the movie ‘Falling Down’, the angry white man has lost his job and been divorced by his wife.

1997 K. Cauthen Many Faces Evil vi. 105 Consider the ‘angry white men’ who resist the struggle of African-Americans, women, gays, lesbians, and other groups.

2019 Guardian (Nexis) 29 Jan. 1 A surge in rightwing populism across Europe over the past 20 years has been largely male-dominated—sometimes characterised as angry white men voting for angry white men.

1951 L. Paul (title) Angry young man.

1956 Daily Mail 12 July 6/2 In the theatre this post-war type is typified by John Osborne's angry young man Jimmy Porter.

1956 N.Y. Times 28 Oct. x. 3/2 His play [sc. Look Back in Anger] is..an intense and frequently eloquent testament of a generation composed of ‘angry young men’ who have come of age in the post-war era.

1957 Times 12 Mar. 10/4 Even in his seventies he [sc. Wyndham Lewis] continued to be treated by many critics as a promising ‘angry young man’.

1957 G. Fearon in Daily Tel. 2 Oct. 8/7 I had read John Osborne's play. When I met the author I ventured to prophesy that his generation would praise his play while mine would, in general, dislike it... ‘If this happens,’ I told him, ‘you would become known as the Angry Young Man.’ In fact, we decided then and there that henceforth he was to be known as that.

1984 P. Larkin in Listener 29 Mar. 24/2 A middle-aged Angry Young Man with a writer's block caused by having his novels computerised.

1990 Maclean's 2 Apr. 11/2 On television he looked too intense, too right on, a tad too much the angry young man.

2010 Independent 23 Mar. 14 (heading) Paul Sandby was an angry young man who turned his fire on William Hogarth.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement f. ccclxxi^v/2 It is a worlde to here hym stammer whan he is angryd: Cest vng passetemps que de louir besguer quant il est courroucé.

1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus i. iii. sig. Fiv Thy father, whom thou shuldest haue remembred, how easy he was to be angryed.

1580 J. Stow Chrons. of Eng. 512 When the King heard he was maruellously angried.

1642 T. Fuller Holy State v. i. 358 Nothing angrieth her so much, as when modest men affect a deafnesse.

1689 J. Child Suppl. Treat. East-India Trade 8 Those former Committees durst not attempt such a change of their Affairs..for fear of angrying the Mogul.

1787 Hist. Martyr J. Bradford 191 He dare say nothing to the purpose for fear of angrying the inquisitors.

1870 M. Taunton Last of Catholic O'Malleys xxxviii. 148 I could not let on for fear of angrying my mother's spirit.

1926 G. Ade Let. 13 Sept. (1998) 111 I hope to goodness that he was not annoyed or angried.

1953 Cincinnati Enquirer 5 June 28/7 Ancient Satchel Paige of the St. Louis Browns today listed his six rules for staying young... (1)—Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood.

1969 Denton (Texas) Record-Chron. 25 Mar. 4/6 Johnson Democrats had enough woe in Wallace Alabama without angrying up the FHA chief.