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
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- temper
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- air
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- disposition
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- distinction
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- habit
- humor
- identity
- idiosyncrasy
- independence
- individualism
- ipseity
- makeup
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- selfhood
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- temper
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- unity
- unlikeness
- way
- abate
- anchor it
- back-water
- bog down
- brake
- check
- choke
- curb
- curtail
- cut back
- cut down
- decelerate
- decrease
- detain
- diminish
- ease off
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- embog
- handicap
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- hit the brakes
- hold back
- hold up
- impede
- keep waiting
- lag
- lessen
- let down flaps
- loiter
- lose speed
- lose steam
- mire
- moderate
- postpone
- procrastinate
- qualify
- quiet
- reduce
- reduce speed
- reef
- regulate
- rein in
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- retard
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- stall
- stunt
- temper
- wind down
- abate
- allay
- alleviate
- appease
- assuage
- become tender
- bend
- cushion
- diminish
- disintegrate
- dissolve
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- enfeeble
- give
- knead
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- lighten
- lower
- mash
- mellow
- melt
- mitigate
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- modify
- moisten
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- qualify
- quell
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- relent
- still
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- temper
- tenderize
- thaw
- tone down
- turn down
- weaken
- yield
- agitation
- anger
- annoyance
- assault
- attack
- barrage
- blitz
- blitzkrieg
- bluster
- bomb
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- broadside
- burst
- bustle
- cannonade
- clamor
- clatter
- convulsion
- disturbance
- drumfire
- furor
- fury
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- hail
- hassle
- hysteria
- offensive
- onset
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- outbreak
- outburst
- outcry
- passion
- perturbation
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- rabidity
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- rampancy
- roar
- row
- ruction
- rumpus
- rush
- salvo
- squall
- stir
- strife
- temper
- tumult
- upheaval
- violence
- volley
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