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
- adapt
- adjust
- administer
- allocate
- arrange
- balance
- classify
- conduct
- control
- coordinate
- correct
- determine
- direct
- dispose
- fit
- fix
- govern
- guide
- handle
- improve
- legislate
- measure
- methodize
- moderate
- modulate
- monitor
- order
- oversee
- pull things together
- put in order
- readjust
- reconcile
- rectify
- rule
- run
- set
- settle
- shape up
- square
- standardize
- straighten up
- superintend
- supervise
- systematize
- temper
- time
- true
- tune
- tune up
- adapts
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- administers
- allocates
- arranges
- balances
- classifies
- conducts
- controls
- coordinates
- corrects
- determines
- directs
- disposes
- fits
- fixes
- governs
- guides
- handles
- improves
- legislates
- measures
- methodizes
- moderates
- modulates
- monitors
- orders
- oversees
- pulls things together
- puts in order
- readjusts
- reconciles
- rectifies
- rules
- runs
- sets
- settles
- shapes up
- squares
- standardizes
- straightens up
- superintends
- supervises
- systematizes
- tempers
- times
- trues
- tune up
- tunes
- abates
- allays
- alleviates
- appeases
- assuages
- breaks
- brightens
- calms
- comforts
- consoles
- cures
- decreases
- diminishes
- diverts
- dulls
- eases
- frees
- interrupts
- lightens
- mitigates
- moderates
- mollifies
- palliates
- qualifies
- quiets
- relaxes
- salves
- slackens
- softens
- solaces
- soothes
- subdues
- takes load off one's chest
- takes load off one's mind
- tempers
- varies
- bind
- bottle up
- bound
- chain
- check
- circumscribe
- come down on
- constrict
- contain
- contract
- cool down
- cramp
- curb
- decrease
- define
- delimit
- delimitate
- demarcate
- demark
- diminish
- encircle
- enclose
- hamper
- handicap
- hang up
- hem in
- hold back
- hold down
- impede
- inclose
- inhibit
- keep within bounds
- keep within limits
- moderate
- modify
- narrow
- pin down
- prelimit
- put away
- put on ice
- qualify
- reduce
- regulate
- restrain
- send up
- shorten
- shrink
- shut in
- surround
- temper
- tether
- tie
- binds
- binds
- bottles up
- chains
- checks
- circumscribes
- comes down on
- constricts
- contains
- contracts
- cools down
- cramps
- curbs
- decreases
- defines
- delimitates
- delimits
- demarcates
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- encircles
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- hangs up
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- keeps within limits
- moderates
- modifies
- narrows
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- prelimits
- puts away
- puts on ice
- qualifies
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- regulates
- restrains
- sends up
- shortens
- shrinks
- shuts in
- surrounds
- tempers
- tethers
- ties
- bee
- bent
- bias
- caprice
- character
- comedy
- comicality
- comicalness
- complexion
- conceit
- disposition
- drollery
- drollness
- fancy
- farcicality
- frame of mind
- funniness
- humorousness
- individualism
- individuality
- jocoseness
- jocosity
- jocularity
- ludicrousness
- makeup
- mind
- nature
- notion
- personality
- propensity
- quirk
- spirits
- strain
- temper
- tone
- vagary
- vein
- whim
- wit
- wittiness
- zaniness
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