Usage of "bad-tempered"

Annoyed and irritable.

Related terms

Usage of bad-tempered in anglès

Of course, they were all as bad-tempered as orcs on the march. 
 Shadow prowler 

Lack of sleep had made her restless, and more than usually bad-tempered. 
 Dogsbody 

Secondly, you are bad-tempered and unjust and we are frightened of you. 
 Five on a treasure island 

Nobody likes a bad-tempered girl, and I have no use for one.' 
 The White Princess 

They grow into cross, bad-tempered men whom nobody likes and nobody trusts. 
 Jeremy 

One moment he was angry and bad-tempered, the next kind and gentle. 
 Secrets of the Wolves 

The imbecilic, bad-tempered, and childish little monster continued to invade his thoughts. 
 Prince Lestat 

Sometimes he's moody and even bad-tempered, poor fellow, and he's fearfully sensitive. 
 In the Wilderness 

Don't you remember the captain told us he was a bad-tempered fellow? 
 A Jolly Fellowship 

All of which makes Sonny V one big, ugly, bad-tempered Italian dude. 
 Shadowglass: the shadowfae chronicles 

You are foolish, Jim, utterly foolish; a bad-tempered boy, that is all. 
 The picture of Dorian Gray 

The bad-tempered have the best of it in this vile world. 
 The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes 

Lowry sent them back to work with a bad-tempered wave of his hand. 
 The half-made world 

Though it remained bad-tempered, captious, and unfriendly, it never went short of food. 
 Charmed Life 

There was a lot of bad-tempered horn abuse, and even more harsh language. 
 From hell with love 

She was deft with the animals, though, easily evading the bad-tempered gray's lunges. 
 Knife of dreams 

Frequent collocations

Bad-tempered through the time

Meanings of bad-tempered in anglès