ill-tempered
Speech parts
1. ill-tempered - Adjective
2. ill-tempered - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Of bad temper; morose; crabbed; sour; peevish; fretful; quarrelsome.
Unhealthy; ill-conditioned.
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How 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.
An ill-tempered dog has a scarred nose.
An ill-tempered woman is the devil's door-nail.
God bestows no horns upon an ill-tempered cow.
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.
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.