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
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".
From BBC • Mar. 19, 2025
On paper, it might sound like fun for an actor to play such a juicy, bad-tempered character.
From BBC • Dec. 19, 2024
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
