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adjective

Ill-tempered adj.

Of bad temper; grouchy; morose; crabbed; sour; peevish; fretful; quarrelsome.

Synonyms: crabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, fussbudgety, grouchy, grumpy, bad-tempered.

Unhealthy; ill-conditioned. (Obs.) "So ill-tempered I am grown, that I am afraid I shall catch cold, while all the world is afraid to melt away."

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Etymology of 'Ill-tempered'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ill-tempered" Quotes from Famous Books

... he called out in a quick, ill-tempered voice. "Come along with the lamp. Hang it; you know what I mean, the butti. These infernal garden-paths ...

— The Pointing Man - A Burmese Mystery • Marjorie Douie

... could never remember a time when he was unable to read, but he had learned how to read with inexhaustible pleasure and unfailing profit, and he had learned how to write. When he was seventeen he had run away from his birthplace, Boston, and the home of an ill-tempered brother, and made his way as best he might to Philadelphia. As he tramped into the city with a loaf under each arm for provender, a young woman leaning in a doorway laughed at the singular figure. Six years later she married Franklin, who in the interval ...

— A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4) • Justin McCarthy and Justin Huntly McCarthy

... like the ill-tempered prophet, thought she "did well to be angry." She imagined herself deserted and betrayed in all her tenderest feelings, her husband a rebel, her home made desolate, her sons and daughters supporting their father's imprudent views. She could only see one alternative ...

— Remember the Alamo • Amelia E. Barr

... bull-dog, and others reject this opinion. His round head, grotesquely abbreviated muzzle, and small, tightly curled tail, they think, entitling him to a place of his own among dogs. Authorities state that he is a cross, ill-tempered little dog, but my own experience contradicts this. The two with whom I have come in frequent contact, have been remarkably playful and good-natured. One was the pet of a lady; and his bringing up ought to have made him gentlemanly; ...

— Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals • R. Lee

... rosebud on its way, and then, with a sudden shock of surprise, she recognised in one of the occupants of the prize car the Englishman with the grey eyes. He was sitting beside an extremely pretty woman and looking somewhat haughty and ill-tempered, as though the whole business of the fete bored ...

— The Vision of Desire • Margaret Pedler

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