Adjective : a bad-tempered person. From Dictionary.com.
Although sometimes they are bad-tempered and stingy. From Wordnik.com. [The Joy Luck Club]
The bad-tempered man is seldom a favorite with society. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Conduct] Reference
His mother was bad-tempered and the servants were surly. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
The sins of the bad-tempered are greater than his merits. From Wordnik.com. [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference
They didn't like him — he looked bad-tempered and mean. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of the Pantomime Cat]
He was selfish, immature, bad-tempered and self-centered. From Wordnik.com. [The Ties That Bind...And Gag!]
He looked anxious and bad-tempered, which was a good sign. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
I don't mean bad-tempered, but seldom anything but erratic. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
The bad-tempered giant might be a good distance away from them. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Federation Of The Hub]
I'm tired and bad-tempered, and you had better believe that …. From Wordnik.com. [War Game]
The old donkey was notoriously bad-tempered and was never brushed. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
He was bad-tempered about it but he agreed to pick up the picture. From Wordnik.com. [The Hard Way]
I made a bad-tempered noise, full of incredulity and baffled urgency. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914] Reference
"There are so many dangers-dragons, griffins, even a bad-tempered lutin -". From Wordnik.com. [Dragon on a Pedestal]
And he was so bad-tempered that the other giants called him Sharvan the Surly. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Spears And Other Fairy Tales] Reference
He had guarded the bad-tempered shoots from all harm, his anticipation growing. From Wordnik.com. [A Spell For Chameleon]
It was a complicated dance, and often a bad-tempered one, but altogether necessary. From Wordnik.com. [Bridge of the Separator]
No one can be a successful worker of a high type who is habitually jealous or bad-tempered. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Girl at Work A Book of Vocational Guidance] Reference
I too was blistered and bad-tempered, but after years at this game, I knew how to contain it. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
She was as bad-tempered, as selfish and uncontrolled now as she must have been from childhood. From Wordnik.com. [Ungrateful Governess]
He made her feel safe, and so gloriously alive, even when he was acting like a bad-tempered boar. From Wordnik.com. [One White Rose]
Ann was awkward about accepting their apologies; and yet she was not naturally a bad-tempered girl. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box] Reference
He is temperamental and whenever things do not go his way, he becomes very bad-tempered and drinks. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of a Geisha]
Emile's manner had troubled her of late, for he had been strangely bad-tempered and variable in his moods. From Wordnik.com. [The Hippodrome] Reference
"Now I know why this monkey is called Madge, and I am sorry to have such a jealous, bad-tempered namesake.". From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Victory] Reference
And so all they do now is just to consider him to be a figure who's slightly bad-tempered and who makes gaffes. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 27, 2003] Reference
They took the same care of them as formerly, and fed and cared for them in spite of their irritable, bad-tempered mood. From Wordnik.com. [Rataplan, a rogue elephant; and other stories] Reference
All dogs who bark constantly are not bad-tempered; This dog does not bark constantly; Therefore he is not bad-tempered. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of Arguments] Reference
They blew through Kapuskasing at ten a.m., on a grey morning that dawned with drizzle and bad-tempered clouds low overhead. From Wordnik.com. [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference
But a woman can always get the better of a bad-tempered man unless he happens to be one of the lower classes who uses his boots. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
Any other time I might have wondered why Dudley looked so jumpy and bad-tempered, but all I was thinking of then was my ugly news. From Wordnik.com. [The La Chance Mine Mystery] Reference
Bull elephants whose tusks do not grow to their full size are sometimes bad-tempered; they seem to have a grudge against everybody. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonders of the Jungle, Book Two] Reference
ZURICH — The Netherlands and Spain have been fined by FIFA for their players 'lack of discipline in a bad-tempered World Cup final. From Wordnik.com. [Spain, Netherlands FINED For World Cup Behavior] Reference
ZURICH mdash; The Netherlands and Spain have been fined by FIFA for their players lack of discipline in a bad-tempered World Cup final. From Wordnik.com. [Spain, Netherlands FINED For World Cup Behavior] Reference
"I do not know whether I dare to meet him," says Atli, "he is bad-tempered, and may be that I shall let another's wound be my warning.". From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor] Reference
We were all weary and bad-tempered, while a hot dusty day, and a rapid succession of little routine messages, did not greatly cheer us. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference
He was not bad-tempered, for example, like poor Claribelle, who at one time was quite unbearable, and made herself disliked by everyone. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Toyland What the Marionette Told Molly] Reference
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