bad-tempered

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

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No one was waiting for her to come home, not even a bad-tempered aunt.

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It was a bad-tempered animal, despite Roosevelt's best efforts to tame it.

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President Ratcliffe sometimes puts them on double watch shifts, so that they get no rest, and they go around red-eyed and bad-tempered.

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Mr. Cheevers, the first mate—slim, hard-bitten—looked capable enough, but bad-tempered.

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