ill-tempered
showing bad temper; irritable
Derived forms of ill-tempered
- ill-temperedly, adverb
Words Nearby ill-tempered
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How to use ill-tempered in a sentence
How wrong is the Tea Party, irate and ill-tempered as it may be, in its critique of government operations?
Obama’s 2012 Campaign Prepped for Disaster. Obamacare Didn’t. | Lloyd Green | October 23, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHe is largely viewed as an ill-tempered, stodgy government bureaucrat.
Thus, our tannery could now sustain a siege against those ill-tempered episcopals.
The Pilgrim's Shell or Fergan the Quarryman | Eugne Sue"Or than me either, I'm afraid," he added, with a ruefulness that was not ill-tempered.
Tristram of Blent | Anthony HopeMore particularly I formed a plan for keeping my ill-tempered mother-in-law in check by this means.
Solomon Maimon: An Autobiography. | Solomon Maimon
Women who are good cooks are sometimes ill-tempered and refuse to exercise their art.
Girls and Women | Harriet E. Paine (AKA E. Chester}I have not seen him; he morally disgusts me; and Marianne says that he is very ill-tempered.
The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) | Florence A. Thomas Marshall
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