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short fuse
noun as in temper
Weak matches
- acerbity
- anger
- annoyance
- bad humor
- cantankerousness
- crossness
- dander
- excitability
- fit
- fretfulness
- furor
- fury
- grouchiness
- heat
- hotheadedness
- huffiness
- ill humor
- impatience
- irascibility
- irascibleness
- ire
- irritability
- irritation
- low boiling point
- miff
- outburst
- passion
- peevishness
- petulance
- pugnacity
- rage
- resentment
- sensitivity
- slow burn
- snit
- sourness
- spleen
- stew
- sullenness
- surliness
- tantrum
- tartness
- tear
- temperament
- tetchiness
- tiff
- touchiness
- wax
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Example Sentences
There is a short fuse and a certain explosion at the end of this piece of treachery.
He had a short fuse and would sometimes berate her when she spoke too much to Gluck.
With everyone on such a short fuse, no Obama Sunday talk marathon is going to calm anyone down.
I offered to show them how to throw a smoke bomb, and they gave me one with an extra short fuse.
Besides the alarm, theres a little surprise on a short fuse.
Don't treat business as though it were a lighted fire-cracker with a short fuse.
The next moment Dan had held the end of the short fuse he had provided to the candle, and a slight spluttering began.
I used only a third of a stick—you know, short fuse, with the end split so as to hold the head of a safety match.
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On this page you'll find 143 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to short-fuse, such as: biased, bigoted, dictatorial, disdainful, dogmatic, and fanatical.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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