Thesaurus / temper
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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.
WHEN YOUR FATHER FALLS APARTEUGENE ROBINSONDECEMBER 23, 2020OZYJaMarcus had always been slow to anger, but DeArthur noticed he was developing a temper.
FOR YEARS, JAMARCUS CREWS TRIED TO GET A NEW KIDNEY, BUT CORPORATE HEALTHCARE STOOD IN THE WAYBY LIZZIE PRESSERDECEMBER 15, 2020PROPUBLICAIt felt like really bad parenting — your child threw a temper tantrum and you gave him the cake just to shut him up.
UNDECIDED, WITH JUST A WEEK TO GONICK FOURIEZOSOCTOBER 27, 2020OZYHe 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.
FICTION: QUIET EARTH PHILOSOPHYKATIE MCLEANOCTOBER 21, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWI can’t rationalize as much as I want to why I was a yeller or continue to have a bad temper.
MOMOFUKU’S DAVID CHANG ON THE BIG CHANGES THE RESTAURANT INDUSTRY NEEDS TO MAKE TO SURVIVEBETH KOWITTSEPTEMBER 14, 2020FORTUNEThe Marshals were inclined to attribute their disgrace to the ill-will of Berthier and not to the temper of Napoleon.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONBut he marred it all by a temper so ungovernable that in Paris there was current a byword, "Explosive as Garnache."
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINIIf 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.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSVictor was the younger son and brother—a tete montee, with a temper which invited violence and a will which no ax could break.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINAll these exhibitions of temper and anger result from what I have pointed out to your Majesty in many other letters.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, 1493-1898, VOLUME XX, 1621-1624VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO TEMPER
- acrimony
- animosity
- annoyance
- antagonism
- cat fit
- chagrin
- choler
- conniption
- dander
- disapprobation
- displeasure
- distemper
- enmity
- exasperation
- fury
- gall
- hatred
- hissy fit
- huff
- ill humor
- ill temper
- impatience
- indignation
- infuriation
- irascibility
- ire
- irritability
- irritation
- mad
- miff
- outrage
- passion
- peevishness
- petulance
- pique
- rage
- rankling
- resentment
- slow burn
- soreness
- stew
- storm
- tantrum
- temper
- tiff
- umbrage
- vexation
- violence
- abate
- allay
- balm
- becalm
- cease
- chill out
- compose
- cool
- cool off
- decrease
- die down
- diminish
- dwindle
- ebb
- fall
- hush
- lay back
- let up
- lullaby
- moderate
- pacify
- put a lid on
- qualify
- quell
- quiet
- quiet down
- settle
- slacken
- soft pedal
- soothe
- still
- stroke
- subdue
- subside
- take it easy
- take the edge
- take the sting out
- temper
- tranquilize
- wane
- abated
- allayed
- balmed
- becalmed
- ceased
- chilled out
- composed
- cooled
- cooled off
- decreased
- died down
- diminished
- dwindled
- ebbed
- fell
- hushed
- lay back
- let up
- lullabied
- moderated
- pacified
- put a lid on
- qualified
- quelled
- quiet down
- quieted
- settled
- slackened
- soft-pedaled
- soothed
- stilled
- stroked
- subdued
- subsided
- tempered
- took it easy
- took the edge
- took the sting out
- tranquilized
- waned
- animation
- ardor
- backbone
- bravery
- caliber
- courage
- daring
- dauntlessness
- disposition
- energy
- fire
- force
- fortitude
- gallantry
- gameness
- grit
- guts
- hardihood
- heart
- indomitability
- kidney
- life
- makeup
- moxie
- nature
- nerve
- pluck
- quality
- resolution
- resolve
- spirit
- spunk
- stamina
- stamp
- starch
- temper
- temperament
- valor
- vigor
- vitality
- abate
- allay
- alleviate
- appease
- assuage
- calm
- chasten
- check
- constrain
- cool
- cool out
- curb
- decline
- decrease
- die down
- diminish
- ease off
- fall
- lessen
- let up
- meet halfway
- mitigate
- modify
- modulate
- mollify
- pacify
- play down
- qualify
- quiet
- reduce
- regulate
- relent
- relieve
- repress
- slacken
- slow
- soft pedal
- soften
- subdue
- subside
- tame
- temper
- tone down
- wane
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