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temper

noun as in calmness

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He could be moody and irritable in the best of times, but now it was ratcheted up to new levels of intensity, and it seemed like I was often bearing the brunt of his foul temper.

From Ozy

JaMarcus had always been slow to anger, but DeArthur noticed he was developing a temper.

It felt like really bad parenting — your child threw a temper tantrum and you gave him the cake just to shut him up.

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He had a temper we couldn’t predict, but in the afternoons, the two of us could spend hours exploring the world inside his parking lot.

I can’t rationalize as much as I want to why I was a yeller or continue to have a bad temper.

From Fortune

“When I was a kid I used to have temper tantrums on the basketball court,” he says.

“I have an unfortunate temper that flares up not too often, thank God,” Baquet says.

He is said to have received a warning from the overall al Qaeda organization to temper his videos.

Any argument I try to hold comes tumbling out in the form of a whiny temper tantrum.

Again, the Israeli temper is hot and quick, sometimes reason becomes blinded and emotions take control.

The Marshals were inclined to attribute their disgrace to the ill-will of Berthier and not to the temper of Napoleon.

But he marred it all by a temper so ungovernable that in Paris there was current a byword, "Explosive as Garnache."

If any one has lost his temper, as well as his money, he takes good care not to show it; to do so here would be indeed bad form.

Victor was the younger son and brother—a tete montee, with a temper which invited violence and a will which no ax could break.

All these exhibitions of temper and anger result from what I have pointed out to your Majesty in many other letters.

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On this page you'll find 297 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to temper, such as: attitude, climate, disposition, humor, mood, and personality.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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