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feeling or showing or strong resentment (usually followed by at, with, or about):
to be angry at the dean; to be angry about the snub.
expressing, caused by, or characterized by ; wrathful:
angry words.
chiefly new england and midland u.s. inflamed, as a sore; exhibiting inflammation.
(of an object or phenomenon) exhibiting a characteristic or creating a mood -ssociated with or danger, as by color, sound, force, etc.:
an angry sea; the boom of angry guns.
contemporary examples

his culture minister, mohammad hossein saffar-harandi, angrily resigned in protest.
a coup in iran? reza aslan august 4, 2009

after the item appeared, tim called her to angrily upbraid her for airing dirty laundry.
hollywood’s liberal heartbreak lloyd grove january 2, 2010

after angrily sharing a secret about the friend who posted about him, he catches himself and laughs, exasperated.
the app bringing out the best/worst in washington’s gays scott bixby may 30, 2014

why go patrolling with a nine-millimeter pistol if you are not angrily hankering to use it?
from the jetblue pilot to robert bales, cultural road rage is everywhere lee siegel march 27, 2012

three times,” he says angrily, “thou shalt betray me ere the c-ck crows.
the stacks: the judas priest teen suicide trial ivan solotaroff june 27, 2014

historical examples

“you forget whom you are speaking to, sir,” mr. drake said, angrily.
with clive in india g. a. henty

“even the beasts will have none of us,” cried number ten angrily.
the monster men edgar rice burroughs

whether, with his means, he should have advanced, has been too much and angrily discussed already.
destruction and reconstruction: richard taylor

angrily he would blow off the dust and then settle himself with a sigh to read.
the harbor ernest poole

at this juncture, the handle of the door was tried, and the voice of mr. wood was heard without, angrily demanding admittance.
jack sheppard, vol. iii (of iii) w. harrison ainsworth

adjective -grier, -griest
feeling or expressing annoyance, animosity, or resentment; enraged
suggestive of anger: angry clouds
severely inflamed: an angry sore
adv.

mid-14c., “resentful, in anger; ill-temperedly,” from angry + -ly (2).
adj.

late 14c., from anger (n.) + -y (2). originally “full of trouble, vexatious;” sense of “enraged, irate” also is from late 14c. the old norse adjective was ongrfullr “sorrowful,” and middle english had angerful “anxious, eager” (mid-13c.). the phrase angry young man dates to 1941 but was popularized in reference to the play “look back in anger” (produced 1956) though it does not occur in that work.

“there are three words in the english language that end in -gry. two of them are angry and hungry. what is the third?” there is no third (except some extremely obscure ones). richard lederer calls this “one of the most outrageous and time-wasting linguistic hoaxes in our nation’s history” and traces it to a new york tv quiz show from early 1975.