bad-tempered

The twins were as bad-tempered and cruel as Veronika was vain and insincere.

But responding to the committee's conservative president, who had just rebuked him in a bad-tempered opening to the hearing, Sanchez fired back that "I think this is a circus."

He would shout and get bad-tempered when things did not go right, Lajmi said.

In a bad-tempered session at the Covid inquiry, the former health secretary repeatedly criticised the line of questioning describing it as "naive", "hostile" and "inappropriate".

On paper, it might sound like fun for an actor to play such a juicy, bad-tempered character.