Thesaurus / ill-tempered

ill-tempered

How to use ill-tempered in a sentence

Thus, our tannery could now sustain a siege against those ill-tempered episcopals.

"Or than me either, I'm afraid," he added, with a ruefulness that was not ill-tempered.

More particularly I formed a plan for keeping my ill-tempered mother-in-law in check by this means.

Women who are good cooks are sometimes ill-tempered and refuse to exercise their art.

GIRLS AND WOMENHARRIET E. PAINE (AKA E. CHESTER}

I have not seen him; he morally disgusts me; and Marianne says that he is very ill-tempered.

Evelyn slouched away, looking as cross and ill-tempered as a little girl could look.

All goes well until he takes a second wife, who turns out ill-tempered and jealous of the first wife.

As her ill-tempered aunt had given her neither money nor clothes, she begged 4l.

Although a passionate man, he was not ill-tempered, and often suffered a great deal for the sake of peace.

He would not set blunted or ill tempered tools to the finest work of the universe!

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985