ill-tempered
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Arguments broke out, the crowd rumbled, and one younger woman suggested that an ill-tempered intruder needed to “dance hrself clean.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
So when Nick Woltemade put Newcastle ahead in the first half of an ill-tempered game, in which Arsenal also had a penalty overturned by VAR, the away fans may have feared the worst.
From BBC ● May 19, 2026
Ruskin’s ill-tempered insistence that drawing is an exercise of virtue was alien to Church’s character, but the same conjunction of extreme naturalism and a sort of vague pantheism is always present.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
The chancellor and shadow chancellor will face off in the Commons later for the first time since that ill-tempered exchange.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2024
“You know he is as ungainly within as without. A deficient, ill-tempered, lowering, stupid fellow.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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