quick-tempered
Use Quick-tempered in a sentence
pərd adjective
easily angered.
Origin:
1820–30
1820–30
Synonyms
quarrelsome, testy, churlish, irascible.
quarrelsome, testy, churlish, irascible.
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| quick-tempered | |
| —adj | |
| readily roused to anger; irascible | |
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Quick-tempered
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
She was willful and quick-tempered by nature and tyrannized the household.
He was quick-tempered and sometimes a bully but a cheerful and witty one.
They were generally quick-tempered and downright in the expression of their opinions.
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