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Meanings of ill-tempered in English
Annoyed and irritable.
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Examples for "cross"
Examples for "cross"
1
Thousands of migrants attempt to cross the Mediterranean to Europe every year.
2
Future studies of comprehensive prenatal case management should focus on cross-level questions.
3
Since Israel's Gaza offensive 18 months ago, cross-border violence has largely abated.
4
The rest needs to come from either cross-selling or new growth initiatives.
5
How can I cross the swarming sea and reach home at last?'
1
So much for Chinese food: Half an hour later you're grumpy again.
2
He was abrupt in manner and grumpy in speech with the seamen.
3
Sure, there's the Christmas present sorted for your dopey, grumpy younger brother.
4
And besides, he was most often a grumpy bones about the children.
5
He's a very good manager, but I feel he's been unnecessarily grumpy.
1
Huppert's psychotically fussy performance might as well be happening in a void.
2
It's like it was prepared to appease a fussy five year old.
3
Far as the color, I'd say she's not gonna be too fussy.
4
Too many pot smokers these days have gotten fussy about their weed.
5
Joy, on the other hand, had opted for a less fussy costume.
1
And the king looked, and saw nothing except the crabbed printed lines.
2
He blinked at the crabbed spidery caligraphy,andhandedthe letterback .
3
They cannot be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at.
4
It is, especially such a language as this crabbed but glorious Deutsch.
5
But he was as crabbed an old wretch as you can please.
1
Could anyone else handle grouchy, socially hopeless House as well as Wilson?
2
And he is nothing like the grouchy, monosyllabic subject of multiple warnings.
3
They are never grouchy and they want to hang out with you.
4
But then, one of his workers disturbs something ancient and incredibly grouchy.
5
He is a Roman soldier and like all Romans is very grouchy.
1
You're going to wake up, perfectly fine and as crabby as ever.
2
My mellow chocolate mood was fading and I was getting crabby fast.
3
God could, after all, be a consummate craftsman, but a crabby character.
4
She might be whiny, and snippy, and crabby, but she's no killer.
5
I can get very impatient and crabby on the home front.
1
Of course, they were all as bad-tempered as orcs on the march.
2
Lack of sleep had made her restless, and more than usually bad-tempered.
3
Secondly, you are bad-tempered and unjust and we are frightened of you.
4
Nobody likes a bad-tempered girl, and I have no use for one.'
5
They grow into cross, bad-tempered men whom nobody likes and nobody trusts.
Usage of ill-tempered in English
1
Visitors considered Roman drivers ill-tempered, short of patience, and heavy of foot.
2
Bolsover, meanwhile, snarled over the matter in ill-tempered conclaves in the play-ground.
3
The final match of the ill-tempered series begins in Johannesburg on Friday.
4
Perhaps he feels the disgrace and it makes him rude and ill-tempered.
5
Behind me, I heard that porch board give out its ill-tempered squeal.
6
It put on an ill-tempered look at every development of the nation.
7
The Queen affected to be good-humoured, and yet was never more ill-tempered.
8
But your reverence does not know how cross and ill-tempered I was.
9
She opened the door, which met her entrance with an ill-tempered jangle.
10
I have to remember things quickly to keep from saying something ill-tempered.
11
Never had she felt so weak, so ill-tempered, so devoid of self-reliance.
12
Do you know, Carr, I think I am growing ill-tempered from trouble.
13
Guinea fowls fretted about, like ill-tempered housewives, with their peevish, discontented cry.
14
Sometimes you see a man who is fiery, cross, ill-tempered and surly.
15
Every ill-tempered film conversation eventually gets around to calling up his name.
16
I'm sure if anyone has cause to be ill-tempered it's poor me.'
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