ill-tempered
Example Sentences
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Arguments broke out, the crowd rumbled, and one younger woman suggested that an ill-tempered intruder needed to “dance hrself clean.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Ruskin’s ill-tempered insistence that drawing is an exercise of virtue was alien to Church’s character, but the same conjunction of extreme naturalism and a sort of vague pantheism is always present.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
On Saturday, Benn will be accompanied by his father, who faced Chris Eubank Sr in two iconic and ill-tempered fights in the 1990s, when he takes on Eubank Jr.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2025
More by-elections would follow - including a defeat to Labour in Batley and Spen in 2021 after another ill-tempered campaign - and a 2016 run at the London Mayoralty, which saw him come 7th.
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2024
But, judging from what Jason had said, those ruins hadn’t held any answers for him - just a bunch of ill-tempered ghouls and ghosts.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
