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
Unlike the shockingly ill-tempered previous meeting in February, US President Donald Trump and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky seemed determined not to look confrontational - despite their remaining differences.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2025
Preston North End finished triumphant over Leeds United in a dramatic but ill-tempered Boxing Day tussle.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2023
They talk, but only to make ill-tempered demands and cold refusals.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
