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ill temper





NOUN
peevishness
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK
affableness


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This one also involves a prominent woman of wealth and ill temper who is surrounded by people who want her money.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

During a long country weekend, however, the hosts’ energetic hospitality betrays an edge, mainly to do with Paddy’s mercurial, insistent personality and flashes of ill temper toward Ant.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024

Part of the ill temper was produced by the death of Bobby Kennedy only two and a half months earlier.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 26, 2018

His ill temper only deepened when we reached Sinjar.

From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2016

If they had been told to clean themselves and their rooms a deep resentment would have set in and the house would have reeked of ill temper.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck




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