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  1. I am angry now.
  2. I am in an anger now.
  3. I am furious now.

I thought Kerry was nice and kind. Hobbs, it turned out it wasn't. I hated myself, so I stated something as above but I don't know which one is best fitted for my situation.

What are other ways to state something similar?

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Sentence (2) is ungrammatical, but (1) and (3) are both fine.

Some will say "furious" implies greater anger (as does the noun "rage"), but for most purposes it's so overused it just means the same as "angry".

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