temper
noun
a particular state of mind or feelings.
Example Sentences
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It’s not like furniture or jewelry or cars; it comes entangled with thin skins, volatile tempers, melodrama galore—our whole business model is built on emotion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
"The baggage hall was the worst and they're very lucky that there wasn't any sort of incident as tempers frayed and the concourse was getting hotter."
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
"Their last meeting is what calmed tempers," she said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026
Wilson, who has a personal relationship with Hegseth that likely tempers his typical inflammatory rhetoric, was more delicate.
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2026
The meeting adjourned with tempers still hot and both sides feeling absolute in the rightness of their position.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
