Thesaurus / hot-tempered
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In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS“You appear to feel it so,” rejoined Mr. Pickwick, smiling at the clerk, who was literally red-hot.
THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB, V. 2(OF 2)CHARLES DICKENSNearly half the regiment ran to secure their picketed horses, armed themselves in hot haste, and galloped to the gaol.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYNews came that the rebels were plundering the British quarters, and the infantry went there in hot haste.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYFrom Canada on the north, to Texas on the south, the hot winds had laid the land seemingly bare.
THE HOMESTEADEROSCAR MICHEAUXFrom early morn to early morn again, the hot winds continued, and the air was surcharged with the smell of burning plants.
THE HOMESTEADEROSCAR MICHEAUXAnd now, escaped from her room, even at this height there came upon him again the hot sluggishness of London.
BELLA DONNAROBERT HICHENSThere was a band playing down at Klein's hotel, and the strains reached them faintly, tempered by the distance.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINPerhaps their course is wiser than that which hot impatience would prompt—nay, I believe it is.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEYPresently the Hole-keeper stopped short and said, faintly, "It strikes me the sun is very hot here."
DAVY AND THE GOBLINCHARLES E. CARRYLWORDS RELATED TO HOT-TEMPERED
- abrupt
- agog
- antsy
- anxious
- appetent
- ardent
- athirst
- avid
- breathless
- brusque
- chafing
- choleric
- curt
- demanding
- dying to
- eager
- edgy
- feverish
- fretful
- hasty
- having short fuse
- headlong
- hot under collar
- hot-tempered
- impetuous
- indignant
- intolerant
- irascible
- irritable
- itchy
- keen
- on pins and needles
- quick-tempered
- racing one's motor
- restless
- ripe
- snappy
- straining
- sudden
- testy
- thirsty
- unforbearing
- unindulgent
- vehement
- violent
- aggressive
- antagonistic
- argumentative
- bellicose
- brawling
- cantankerous
- chip on shoulder
- choleric
- combative
- contentious
- defiant
- disputatious
- have a bone to pick
- hot-tempered
- irascible
- irritable
- itching to fight
- militant
- petulant
- pushing
- pushy
- quarrelsome
- ready to fight
- rebellious
- salty
- scrappy
- self-assertive
- truculent
- warlike
- abrupt
- agog
- antsy
- anxious
- appetent
- ardent
- athirst
- avid
- breathless
- brusque
- chafing
- choleric
- curt
- demanding
- dying to
- eager
- edgy
- feverish
- fretful
- hasty
- having short fuse
- headlong
- hot under collar
- hot-tempered
- impetuous
- indignant
- intolerant
- irascible
- irritable
- itchy
- keen
- on pins and needles
- quick-tempered
- racing one's motor
- restless
- ripe
- snappy
- straining
- sudden
- testy
- thirsty
- unindulgent
- vehement
- violent
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