ill-tempered
Example Sentences
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Recantankerous: Ill-tempered about having to walk back a lie.
From Washington Post • Jan. 16, 2020
Ill-tempered, condescending and selfish, Will is not very likable, but Mr. Daniels is a skillful actor who signals Will’s self-loathing as well as his more loathsome traits.
From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2012
Ill-tempered people are always doing it, and I did it to my life-long loss.
From A Great Emergency and Other Tales by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty
Ill-tempered though he might be, he was still polite, for at every stopping-place he got out to smoke, and extinguished his cigar ere he re-entered.
From Memoirs by Leland, Charles Godfrey
He's dry and snuffy, deaf and slow Ill-tempered, weak and poorly!
From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir
