bad-tempered

Example Sentences

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He chose that particular name because “it conjured up someone old-fashioned and bad-tempered lamenting the state of the world through the window of a London club while clutching his glass of port.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

He denied his No 10 had been a toxic place to work, and said bad-tempered exchanges between advisers showed "naturally self-critical" people anxious to do their best, even adding it was "creatively useful".

From BBC • Dec. 7, 2023

The United States lost their third game, a bad-tempered, card-filled match against Austria, and finished in last place in their group.

From BBC • Nov. 13, 2023

In Nigeria, for example, a small and bad-tempered snake called the West African carpet viper is responsible for most of the country's bites.

From Scientific American • Sep. 23, 2023

If, the winter of seventy-three, Johnny Tremain had a romantic attachment to anyone, it was to that black haired and, as far as he knew, black-hearted, bad-tempered, disagreeable, conceivable ‘cousin’ of his Miss Lavinia Lyte.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes