nasty-tempered
Example Sentences
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Not Neal Gamby, the nasty-tempered, aggressively striving school administrator he now plays in “Vice Principals.”
From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2017
Raul Roa, the director of the new diplomacy, is a nasty-tempered college professor on leave from Havana University, where he taught sociology and headed the faculty of social sciences.
From Time Magazine Archive
He went to a pet shop and procured "a nasty-tempered fugitive from an organ-grinder's beat," though in his columns Fowler called the monkey "Ponce de Leon."
From Time Magazine Archive
She always gave a wide berth to a man who looked nasty-tempered.
From The Shuttle by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
I’m a nasty-tempered dog if any one tries to take my bone away; aren’t I, my sons?”
From To Win or to Die A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze by Hardy, Paul
