Thesaurus / hot-tempered

hot-tempered

How to use hot-tempered in a sentence

In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.

“You appear to feel it so,” rejoined Mr. Pickwick, smiling at the clerk, who was literally red-hot.

Nearly half the regiment ran to secure their picketed horses, armed themselves in hot haste, and galloped to the gaol.

News came that the rebels were plundering the British quarters, and the infantry went there in hot haste.

From Canada on the north, to Texas on the south, the hot winds had laid the land seemingly bare.

From early morn to early morn again, the hot winds continued, and the air was surcharged with the smell of burning plants.

And now, escaped from her room, even at this height there came upon him again the hot sluggishness of London.

BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENS

There was a band playing down at Klein's hotel, and the strains reached them faintly, tempered by the distance.

Perhaps their course is wiser than that which hot impatience would prompt—nay, I believe it is.

Presently the Hole-keeper stopped short and said, faintly, "It strikes me the sun is very hot here."

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985