An irritable petulant feeling.
A disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger.
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Examples for "temper "
Examples for "temper "
1 During the crisis in the Sudan, the popular temper was her own.
2 And I wish you'd go 'way, she said, her temper rising again.
3 People whose major concern is climate change have to temper their ambitions.
4 Franshion's large cash balance and its good financial flexibility temper this weakness.
5 Fanshion's large cash balance and its good financial flexibility temper this weakness.
1 Already, despite her surliness , he feared she'd be disappointed if he left.
2 With my best effort at surliness I asked what we had done.
3 That along with the uncharacteristic surliness meant he was edgy as hell.
4 His relief expressed itself in a superficial surliness ; but Edwin was not deceived.
5 We managed for months before surliness crept in and the project was abandoned.
1 They are of the very greatest value where there is any tendency toward biliousness .
2 There is more yellow in life from biliousness , than from the state of the atmosphere.
3 In many instances it causes biliousness , fermentation and constipation.
4 Although in the case of the sovereign pontiff, his biliousness was, to a degree, understandable.
5 Port knew from experience how acute is that form of biliousness which results from rage.
1 For me, her pettishness is one of her charms, I confess it.
2 This, together with her very human pettishness , complicated the social problem.
3 At this I broke out in all a sick man's pettishness .
4 She turned her back on him, then suddenly smarted at her own pettishness .
5 He ignored Hyacinth's resentment, endured her pettishness , and was studiously polite to her.
1 Why go along with crossness, and coldness and snappishness in your life?
2 Was that the reason for my snappishness at the ME's office?
3 Cursed snappishness to those under me, on a bodily indisposition.
4 Collette stared at me like I'd grown another head, and her snappishness came back.
5 This snappishness amazed and wounded the young man.
1 His mind was palsied with his body; its utmost energy was peevishness .
2 Fine. He couldn't prevent the peevishness that had crept into his voice.
3 A disordered, or an over-loaded stomach, is a frequent cause of peevishness .
4 My invalid peevishness , too, has accentuated my sensitiveness to shades of refinement.
5 Hoddan scowled at Don Loris, whose expression of peevishness did not lighten.
6 Passions turned into needs; strong opinions devolved into peevishness or rage.
7 Which was probably why they were so mean-generalbuildup of peevishness .
8 Persis' soothing tone suggested readiness to excuse the natural peevishness of an invalid.
9 Put my words down to the peevishness of old age then.
10 I wasn't a Bokononist then, so I agreed with some peevishness .
11 To allow a feeling of peevishness to overwhelm all your affection for Andre!
12 Soon she asked, in a voice which had quite lost the tone of peevishness :
13 He closed this wretched outbreak of peevishness and wounded self-conceit with the following passage:-
14 The peevishness of one of their number seemed to bring out their latent courage.
15 The peevishness of an invalid vents itself even on those who alleviate his pain.
16 I don't have to respond to such peevishness , Miss Pemberton.
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