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Discover LudwigThe phrase "avoid angry" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to suggest steering clear of anger or not provoking anger, but it lacks clarity and proper grammatical structure.
Example: "To maintain a peaceful environment, it's best to avoid angry confrontations."
Alternatives: "steer clear of anger" or "prevent anger.".
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This year, however, Mr. Kerry put out the word that speakers were to accentuate the positive and to avoid angry partisanship.
The driver, Brett M. Sloppy, 28, of San Marcos, Calif., escaped uninjured, officials said, but had to be escorted away under police protection to avoid angry spectators, some of whom threw rocks at him.
In contrast with last year, when Mr. Blair was smuggled into the hearing room to avoid angry demonstrators, on Friday he entered by the front door, encountering only scattered catcalls from a small crowd of protesters.
The pressure has been unbearable– even under Mel there were training ground confrontations and players now routinely leave by the back door to avoid angry fans – but some agreed.
When he fled to London to avoid angry members of his former gang, he ended up in Regent's Park mosque; then he was offered a Saudi-funded scholarship to study Arabic and his new faith at an ultra-conservative religious school in Yemen.
Earlier, she had to be escorted by police as she left a church visit to avoid angry locals.
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While the airlines may have avoided angry passengers bombarding agents at airports, they still are having trouble handling the surge of calls after cancellations are announced.
In the past week, videotaped snippets of the incendiary race rhetoric of Mr. Obama's longtime pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., seemed on the verge of tainting Mr. Obama with the stereotype he had carefully avoided: angry black politician.
Instead, participants gazed more at negative than neutral emotional displays although they physically avoided angry (but not sad or neutral) agents.
Workmates will avoid someone angry.
By focusing on the whole family, we could avoid the angry battles between ex-spouses.
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