sharp-tempered
Example Sentences
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For several chapters Greene's sister Alice runs away with the story, fights her way back to respectability, grows heroic without ceasing to be an outraged, sharp-tempered, occasionally foolish female.
From Time Magazine Archive
Minnesota's Commissioner of Education, John Gunderson Rockwell, is a tall, razory man, sharp-nosed, sharp-witted, sharp-tempered.
From Time Magazine Archive
No, no; 'goodness,' as you call it, don't depend on little Miss Joy, or wickedness on sharp-tempered viragos like you say your aunt is.
From Little Miss Joy by Emma Marshall
In the last and straggliest of those streets which runs along the sea like a sea-wall there is a very honest but rather sharp-tempered member of my flock, a widow called MacNab.
From The Wisdom of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
He always was rather a sharp-tempered dog, so I did not answer him.
From A Winter Nosegay Being Tales for Children at Christmastide by Walter Crane
