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Tags: <word-request>
Title: Word meaning "to walk angrily with long steps without giving respect other people"
Question: Is there a single word(verb) to describe the action "to walk angrily with long steps without giving respect other people"?  I found these three words which seem to be a close match for what I'm looking for: swagger, strut and stride. But I'm not sure which one of these I should use, or is there another other word that's better?

Answers:
sents: text: I suggest the phrasal verb storm off , which encompasses the idea of leaving with anger.
text: I find the use of lope to be at odds with the need for anger in the motion, since a lope is "a long, easy stride; a leisurely canter"; ease and leisureliness are not compatible with anger.
text: As StoneyB says, I don't think you can get everything all into one word or even one phrasal verb; you will need additional description for the part where others are treated disrespectfully.
text: Other options for that portion could be elbowing people aside , barreling through the crowd , or even heedless of the people in his way .
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/87/Hellion
score: 12
sents: text: Stomp
text: I think you'll find 'stomp' perfect for use in this context.
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/3598/MrWonderful
score: 7
sents: text: None of these words will fully serve your purpose.
text: Stride includes the notion of long steps .
text: Swagger and strut both include the notion of pride, but this is more an exaggerated regard for oneself than any direct disrespect for another.
text: None of these words includes the notion of anger.
text: I doubt that any one English verb will convey all these notions.
text: You will have to pick a verb which conveys the most important one, and add modifiers which convey the others.
text: For instance: He paced angrily forward; his humiliated followers could only scurry behind, unable to keep up with him.
text: He raged up and down in long strides, shouldering aside anyone who stood in his path.
text: He sneered and loped off in evident anger.
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/32/StoneyB on hiatus
score: 6
sents: text: One could plough through a crowd, angrily or not.
text: One might barge past some onlookers - to barge implies rudeness or indifference.
text: see also "he barged into the room, uninvited" I could also bull my way through the crowd
text: My ex-wife often stormed away in her anger at me and I would storm off in a fit of fury.
text: If you do so loudly, you might be said to thunder through or thunder past the startled onlookers.
text: A sense of *Charged angrily" would work too: In a fury, he charged through the crowd.
text: Hope it helps.
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/5823/TedEwen
score: 5
sents: text: I don't know of a single word in my American dialect that quite captures it.
text: But He stormed off works pretty well if your person is leaving a room, or a group of people in a huff.
text: It's frequently used in that context.
text: "Stride" suggests a person walking quickly, but doesn't imply anger.
text: A silly woman leaving a situation in anger over something trivial, who wants everyone to see her leaving angry, can "flounce" away.
text: But dignified people don't flounce, and men don't either.
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/3860/swbarnes2
score: 1
sents: text: I think that stalked is the perfect word….i.e. stalked across the room
answer_details: author: ell.stackexchange.com/users/6147/MsKisha Monet
score: 1

Summary of the answers:
"Stalked", "paced", "stormed off" or "stomped" convey the intended meaning.
Stride, stalk and stomp work. You can also use phrasal verbs such as storm off.