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How to use ill-tempered in a sentence

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Before long the reader begins to suspect that this ill-tempered diary is also intended as a kind of psychological case history.
He was true to his word and bowed out gracefully after an ill-tempered special general meeting in Edinburgh.
His problem was rather the reverse, namely that he became aggressive, ill-tempered and moody.
All the indicators pointed towards a decent game of football although the game's early spell was fractious and ill-tempered.
I got through the first day of the month, then, not too grumpy, or ungrateful, or ill-tempered.
But when composure gave way to a series of ugly and ill-tempered clashes, there was only going to be one winner.
A generally ill-tempered second half boiled over into heated exchanges on a number of occasions.
It was the first indication that the game could become ill-tempered, and it also marked out Hammell as the fall guy.
Life for her and her siblings on Blawearie farm is conditioned by the weather and the mood of her thrawn, ill-tempered father, John.
Obviously, I would like to take the opportunity to thank the parliamentary secretary for helping me develop my ill-tempered nature.
However, the two years of negotiations from Bali to Copenhagen were fraught and ill-tempered.
Hmas Tobruk's renowned can-do attitude came to the fore when a remote coastal landing was in jeopardy last month because of ill-tempered tides.
Though charming and pleasant, she was too ill-tempered to be a perfect gentlewoman.
Any advice for well-tempered students who study with ill-tempered teachers?
How wrong is the Tea Party, irate and ill-tempered as it may be, in its critique of government operations?
The match was an ill-tempered clash, which yielded a record 14 yellow cards.
Serbia squeezed past Austria 1-0 in an ill-tempered Group 7 match in which eight players were booked.
At Weydon fair, this corn thresher got drunk and spoke in an ill-tempered way of his wife.
An ill-tempered, compassionless moneygrubber, Scrooge runs roughshod over everyone he encounters.
My dad was usually a passive-aggressive person, only when my mother pushed certain buttons did he tend to get irritated and ill-tempered.
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Examples from Classical Literature
There are the three Banellic girls, the most ill-tempered, ugly cats in England.
There is not another person in the world who thinks me ill-tempered but you.
They were surly, growly, ill-tempered birds, and were apt to make themselves very disagreeable if one met them after dark.
Rosamond was ill-tempered and spent most of her time in her room.
It was evidently a rogue elephant, an ill-tempered brute who had been driven from the herd to spend a solitary existence.
But of all the ill-tempered, bearish, detestable men I ever met in my life, he is the worst.
They may look on the lollop, but not on the sulk, nor they don't 'ang their 'eads like a ill-tempered moke.
Miss ballantyne says that he was not ill-tempered, but on the contrary, kind, especially to children.
He was tired, hungry, and ill-tempered, but she was too desperate to care.
But though the cook was so ill-tempered, the footman was quite different.
You may ask, in your ill-tempered way, what business I have to meddle with affairs of yours which it is your pleasure to keep private.
Russian director Bodrov salves some of the pain with a series of bombastic action sequences replete with flying dragons, wicked witches and an ill-tempered ogre-like creature.
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