ill-tempered
Example Sentences
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“The queen’s best friends were corgis, these short-legged, ill tempered beasts with a yap that doesn’t appeal to many people in Britain, but was absolutely crucial to the Queen.”
From Seattle Times • Sep. 11, 2022
There were ill tempered scenes between "Yes" and "No" supporters while Lord Prescott was campaigning in Rutherglen.
From BBC • Sep. 10, 2014
But from the day he became prime minister, colleagues complained that he was abusive, scornful and ill tempered to peers and staff.
From Time • Feb. 27, 2012
The game was hard hitting and ill tempered, a carryover from the game at the Garden on Jan. 21, when the Flyers enforcer Daniel Carcillo fought and flattened the Rangers sniper Marian Gaborik.
From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2010
Mr. Fergus Crampton is a man of about sixty, tall, hard and stringy, with an atrociously obstinate, ill tempered, grasping mouth, and a querulously dogmatic voice.
From You Never Can Tell by Shaw, Bernard
