Thesaurus / ill-tempered
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Would that not a single cross or ill-tempered wife were left in the world!
THE BBUR-NMA IN ENGLISHBABUR, EMPEROR OF HINDUSTAN
The partner with the ill-tempered eyebrows wanted to know what my reasons were.
THE LAW AND THE LADYWILKIE COLLINS
His genial Irish smile, when in action, concealed the ill-tempered lines of his thin old face.
BEYOND THE ROCKSELINOR GLYN
For several months, Andros gave the Northern colonies a taste of ill-tempered despotism.
HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATESCHARLES A. BEARD AND MARY R. BEARD
She was not avaricious, nor intriguing, nor ill-tempered, nor unjust.
The old fellow turned to me, and I noticed that he snarled and showed his teeth like an ill-tempered cur as he spoke.
THE THREE IMPOSTORSARTHUR MACHEN
Because they're cross-grained, or ill-tempered, or disagreeable?
HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHTANTHONY TROLLOPE
It is of angry, ill-tempered, unkind words that we do not believe this so readily.
THE EXPOSITOR'S BIBLE:ALFRED PLUMMER
I think you are never happy when disobedient, wilful, or ill-tempered.
ELSIE'S VACATION AND AFTER EVENTSMARTHA FINLEY
The face of Angela again wore its proud, vain expression, and Theudelinde was once more stiff and ill-tempered.
BLACK DIAMONDSMR JKAI
WORDS RELATED TO ILL-TEMPERED
- affronted
- annoyed
- bitter
- chafed
- choleric
- cross
- displeased
- enraged
- exacerbated
- exasperated
- ferocious
- fierce
- fiery
- fuming
- furious
- galled
- hateful
- heated
- hot
- huffy
- ill-tempered
- impassioned
- incensed
- indignant
- inflamed
- infuriated
- irascible
- irate
- ireful
- irritable
- irritated
- nettled
- offended
- outraged
- piqued
- provoked
- raging
- resentful
- riled
- sore
- splenetic
- storming
- sulky
- sullen
- tumultous/tumultuous
- turbulent
- uptight
- vexed
- wrathful
- affronted
- annoyed
- bitter
- chafed
- choleric
- cross
- displeased
- enraged
- exacerbated
- exasperated
- ferocious
- fierce
- fiery
- fuming
- furious
- galled
- hateful
- heated
- hot
- huffy
- ill-tempered
- impassioned
- incensed
- indignant
- inflamed
- infuriated
- irascible
- irate
- ireful
- irritable
- irritated
- nettled
- offended
- outraged
- piqued
- provoked
- raging
- resentful
- riled
- sore
- splenetic
- storming
- sulky
- sullen
- tumultous/tumultuous
- turbulent
- uptight
- vexed
- wrathful
- base
- blunt
- brusque
- cantankerous
- cloddish
- clodhopping
- crabbed
- crude
- crusty
- curt
- cussed
- discourteous
- dour
- grouchy
- gruff
- grumpy
- harsh
- ill-tempered
- impolite
- loutish
- lowbred
- mean
- miserly
- morose
- oafish
- ornery
- rude
- rustic
- snippy
- sullen
- surly
- touchy
- ugly
- uncivil
- uncivilized
- uncultured
- unmannerly
- unneighborly
- unpolished
- unsociable
- vulgar
- acid
- acrid
- acrimonious
- awkward
- bad-tempered
- blunt
- brusque
- captious
- choleric
- chuffy
- churlish
- crabbed
- cranky
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cynical
- difficult
- dour
- fretful
- gloomy
- glum
- grouchy
- harsh
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- irascible
- misanthropic
- morose
- mumpish
- nasty-tempered
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- prickly
- saturnine
- snappish
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tart
- testy
- tough
- trying
- unsociable
- acid
- acrid
- acrimonious
- awkward
- bad-tempered
- blunt
- brusque
- captious
- choleric
- chuffy
- churlish
- crabbed
- cranky
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cynical
- difficult
- dour
- fretful
- gloomy
- glum
- grouchy
- harsh
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- irascible
- misanthropic
- morose
- mumpish
- nasty-tempered
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- prickly
- saturnine
- snappish
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tart
- testy
- tough
- trying
- unsociable
- acid
- acrid
- acrimonious
- awkward
- bad-tempered
- blunt
- brusque
- captious
- choleric
- chuffy
- churlish
- crabbed
- cranky
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cynical
- difficult
- dour
- fretful
- gloomy
- glum
- grouchy
- harsh
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- irascible
- misanthropic
- morose
- mumpish
- nasty-tempered
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- prickly
- saturnine
- snappish
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tart
- testy
- tough
- trying
- unsociable
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