trigger-happy in English

adjective
1
ready to react violently, especially by shooting, on the slightest provocation.
territory controlled by trigger-happy bandits

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1. Their police are worryingly trigger-happy.

2. Some called him a trigger-happy candidate.

3. The problem is that trigger-happy intervention also has its drawbacks.

4. The new security forces are certainly trigger-happy. Some are proving undisciplined.

5. Those young teenagers are carrying machine guns, and they feel trigger-happy.

6. The lasting we want it a trigger-happy general at the disarmament talks.

7. It's dangerous to have a trigger-happy person in charge of national security.

8. They are the police force that keeps the immune system from becoming trigger-happy.

9. A trigger-happy city where children as young as 10 roam the streets brandishing Kalashnikovs.

10. Equip Bazillions of guns as one of four trigger-happy mercenaries, each with unique RPG skills

11. In those months, as the fighting escalated, concern about careless, trigger-happy Americans was rising in Afghanistan.

12. Your pupils dilate, your muscles contract, your Spidey sense tingles, basically your whole body is trigger-happy.

13. One trigger-happy man fires into the air with his rifle to remind us who is in charge.

14. The investigator said the killings were the result of poor procedure by trigger-happy police rather than premeditated murder.

15. Poor or trigger-happy fighters are sometimes "retired", either sent home or given a menial task, such as sweeping floors.

16. 30 Poor or trigger-happy fighters are sometimes "retired", either sent home or given a menial task, such as sweeping floors.

17. After all,(Sentencedict.com ) half-an-hour away in any direction there is a trigger-happy racist waiting for his big day.

18. You'll be a little trigger-happy on the 3rd and 4th, but do your best to keep your temper under control.

19. A debate even begins about whether the army is not getting a little trigger-happy in its nervous and no doubt terrified tension.

20. “It seems to me they find that the dumbest, the Blindest, the most trigger-happy people, intolerant people, to make them police officers,” Nwangaza proclaimed

21. 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.

22. In their first appearance, Jack was a trigger-happy arms maniac and William a master of disguise but those character traits weren't kept in the subsequent albums.

23. 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."

24. 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.

25. Discover the co-op shooter-looter that started it all, crammed with content and enhancements! Equip Bazillions of guns as one of four trigger-happy mercenaries, each with unique RPG skills

26. Toro Loco: Bloodthirsty stars Francisco Melo as a vigilante who enlists the support of a young beauty, her geeky brother and a trigger-happy drag queen to avenge the murder of his son.

27. In August 2015, Amnesty International launched the report “You Killed My Son: Homicides Committed by Military Police in the City of Rio de Janeiro”, detailing “trigger-happy” police practices in the favela of Acari in the aftermath of the 2014 World Cup.