roiled

IPA: rˈɔɪɫd

adjective

  • (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence
  • aroused to impatience or anger
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Examples of "roiled" in Sentences

  • The article says President Chen "roiled" the United States.
  • McCain roiled things yesterday, and I think set things back.
  • Terms like "roiled" and "contagion" are insider words for a spreading panic.
  • "That change rivals anything that we've seen in the last three years of the smartphone market," said Paul Carton, ChangeWave's director of research, adding that the sudden surge in consumer interest in Android had "roiled" the market.
  • Politico reports that the possibility has "roiled" Obama-land, with unnamed Obama-ites expressing "a sense of ambivalence about giving a top political plum to a woman they spent 18 months hammering as the compromised standard-bearer of an era that deserves to be forgotten."
  • Our open-source pal Hans-Olaf Gutmansdottir aka Hog writes in to say that the "FLOSS commmunity" wtf? has been "roiled" by that item as it turns out that their beloved leader, Richard Stallman, the patron saint of the Free Software movement, apparently has been advertising on that site under fake names.
  • In an interview with Baltimore Sun columnist David Zurawik, Williams said he remains emotionally "roiled" by the incident and said, despite being hired full-time by Fox News with a three-year, $2 million contract, "there's an emotional disconnect, because the way it feels to me is like I just got fired and I'm not even sure what I did wrong."

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