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ill-tempered
adjective
- showing bad temper; irritable
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Derived Forms
- ˌill-ˈtemperedly, adverb
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Example Sentences
How wrong is the Tea Party, irate and ill-tempered as it may be, in its critique of government operations?
He is largely viewed as an ill-tempered, stodgy government bureaucrat.
Thus, our tannery could now sustain a siege against those ill-tempered episcopals.
"Or than me either, I'm afraid," he added, with a ruefulness that was not ill-tempered.
More particularly I formed a plan for keeping my ill-tempered mother-in-law in check by this means.
Women who are good cooks are sometimes ill-tempered and refuse to exercise their art.
I have not seen him; he morally disgusts me; and Marianne says that he is very ill-tempered.
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