Meanings of ruffled temper in English

Ojeda returned from an exploring journey one day with a ruffled temper.

He, poor fool, endeavoured by every means to allay her ruffled temper, always ineffectually.

This return to femininity soothed the sailor's ruffled temper.

Hi bumped his way to the bottom at the expense of some bruises and a badly ruffled temper.

Gratitude to the person soothing his unwontedly ruffled temper was the cause of the indiscretion in the amount he gave.

She closes this spicy correspondence, however, with a very affectionate letter which calms the ruffled temper of her sensitive companion.

But her smiles did not soothe Graeme's ruffled temper, and she reached home at last quite ashamed of her folly.

The long ride on an empty stomach had not smoothed a ripple of his ruffled temper, and we were all properly lectured.

Still boiling, she disappeared to nurse her ruffled temper in private; and she remained absent from the room for over half an hour.

He had taken some trouble in smoothing down the ruffled temper of Bently Brown, even before viewing the trial run of the picture.

After dining upon Gottlieb's partridge which had done much to smoothe her ruffled temper, Mrs. Ulrica was thus insinuatingly addressed by her husband:

Three little spots of color came into the cheeks and nose of Mr. Gabbitas, but his voice showed nothing of his ruffled temper.

Nancy had disappeared just when they were ready to start and kept them waiting fifteen minutes, which had also served to aggravate Billie's ruffled temper.

His easily- ruffled temper suffered from the after effects of what is commonly known as a "jolly row," and his speech was curt in consequence thereof.