1. ill-tempered - Adjective
2. ill-tempered - Adjective Satellite
Of bad temper; morose; crabbed; sour; peevish; fretful; quarrelsome.
Unhealthy; ill-conditioned.
Source: Webster's dictionaryHow pleasant to know Mr. Lear! Who has written such volumes of stuff! Some think him ill-tempered and queer, But a few think him pleasant enough. Edward Lear
An ill-tempered dog has a scarred nose. Danish Proverb
An ill-tempered woman is the devil's door-nail. Danish Proverb
God bestows no horns upon an ill-tempered cow. Russian Proverb
In a desultory and ill-tempered campaign, he berated the “free education” policy of the Action Group that had transformed Western Nigeria, village for village, into perhaps the most literate territory in Africa south of the Sahara. Source: Internet
No matter how ill-tempered Nicholls would have been in the house, it's unlikely she would have topped the antics of her co-star Ken Morley. Source: Internet