bad-tempered
cross; cranky; surly; ill-tempered: a bad-tempered person.
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How to use bad-tempered in a sentence
The result was therefore foul-mouthed and bad-tempered in proportion to the force it took to get through my wall of shyness.
Francis Spufford on How Atheists Put Religion Through All the Wrong Tests | Francis Spufford | October 13, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd still, the bad-tempered second half did not yield a goal.
The nation is feeling even more bad tempered, broke and anxious than it did the weeks before.
I don't think I could ever be content under a bad-tempered, sentimentalism, strenuous Government.
The New Machiavelli | Herbert George WellsI've met him; he's a bad-tempered hypochondriac, a cynic at heart, and a man whose word is never doubted.
In Search of the Unknown | Robert W. Chambers
A bad-tempered woman is described as a "vixen," or female fox; a lazy person as a "drone," or the bee which does no work.
Stories That Words Tell Us | Elizabeth O'Neill"He is always bad-tempered when we come to the Court," she said.
Mary Gray | Katharine TynanHe's a bad-tempered brute, and I wonder the squire keeps it.
A Final Reckoning | G. A. Henty
British Dictionary definitions for bad-tempered
angry, irritable, or ungracious
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