bad-tempered
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In the sometimes bad tempered live BBC1 TV debate, the calls for the leaders to fully publish their spending plans were greeted with a round of applause by the studio audience.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026
Often bad tempered – Cox the angry-young-man-in chief – and ugly, with the ground left slippery by snow which had just eased by kick-off.
From The Guardian • Jan. 13, 2013
And as the year turns and we make new resolutions to be tidier, more punctual, more generous, less bad tempered, there is another resolve we can make.
From BBC • Dec. 31, 2010
Goals from Brehme and Klinsmann helped decide a bad tempered tie between two of international football's greatest rivals.
From Newsweek • Jul. 10, 2010
"Those porcupines always were bad tempered," Big Rabbit said shakily.
From "Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust" by Eve Bunting
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