We have no meanings for "rather ill-tempered" in our records yet.
1 I expected to find the professor rather ill-tempered at my interference, but I found him inclined to raillery.
2 I was admitted by a rather ill-tempered - looking housemaid, with a cap of obtrusive respectability and a spotless white apron.
3 Just then a horse's head looked over from the stall beyond; the ears were laid back, and the eye looked rather ill-tempered .
4 On returning, I had a heated discussion with our board, only succeeding in gaining the reputation of being rather ill-tempered and hard to please.
5 This man was a very large fellow, with a dark surly countenance-notexactly bad in expression, but ratherill-tempered-looking
6 'They are rather ill-tempered just now.
7 "You seem rather ill - tempered tonight," the dragon replied.
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