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Meanings of bad-tempered in English

Annoyed and irritable.

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      Usage of bad-tempered in English
      1
      Of course, they were all as bad-tempered as orcs on the march.
      Shadow prowler
      2
      Lack of sleep had made her restless, and more than usually bad-tempered.
      Dogsbody
      3
      Secondly, you are bad-tempered and unjust and we are frightened of you.
      Five on a treasure island
      4
      Nobody likes a bad-tempered girl, and I have no use for one.'
      The White Princess
      5
      They grow into cross, bad-tempered men whom nobody likes and nobody trusts.
      Jeremy
      6
      One moment he was angry and bad-tempered, the next kind and gentle.
      Secrets of the Wolves
      7
      The imbecilic, bad-tempered, and childish little monster continued to invade his thoughts.
      Prince Lestat
      8
      Sometimes he's moody and even bad-tempered, poor fellow, and he's fearfully sensitive.
      In the Wilderness
      9
      Don't you remember the captain told us he was a bad-tempered fellow?
      A Jolly Fellowship
      10
      All of which makes Sonny V one big, ugly, bad-tempered Italian dude.
      Shadowglass: the shadowfae chronicles
      11
      You are foolish, Jim, utterly foolish; a bad-tempered boy, that is all.
      The picture of Dorian Gray
      12
      The bad-tempered have the best of it in this vile world.
      The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
      13
      Lowry sent them back to work with a bad-tempered wave of his hand.
      The half-made world
      14
      Though it remained bad-tempered, captious, and unfriendly, it never went short of food.
      Charmed Life
      15
      There was a lot of bad-tempered horn abuse, and even more harsh language.
      From hell with love
      16
      She was deft with the animals, though, easily evading the bad-tempered gray's lunges.
      Knife of dreams
      Bad-tempered through the time