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adjective

Ill-tempered adj.

Of bad temper; grouchy; morose; crabbed; sour; peevish; fretful; quarrelsome.

Synonyms: crabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, fussbudgety, grouchy, grumpy, bad-tempered.

Unhealthy; ill-conditioned. (Obs.) "So ill-tempered I am grown, that I am afraid I shall catch cold, while all the world is afraid to melt away."

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... the pocket of Heron's coat there was a letter-case with some few hundred francs. It was amusing to think that the brute's money helped to bribe the ill-tempered keeper of the half-way house to receive guests at midnight, and to ply them well with food, drink, and the shelter of a ...

— El Dorado • Baroness Orczy

... ten years older than himself; and though he might sometimes almost forget the fact, his friends and neighbours were well aware of it. In the other case the whole fault probably was with the husband. He was an ill-tempered, bad-hearted man, clever enough, but without principle; and he was continually guilty of the great sin of speaking evil of the woman whose name he should have been anxious to protect. In both cases our friend Mrs. ...

— Mrs. General Talboys • Anthony Trollope

... said Vixen coolly. "I don't want to interfere with him; it makes him ill-tempered. And if he were to ...

— Vixen, Volume I. • M. E. Braddon

... fancy flights and inferences to sleep as if they were babes in the woods. It was quickly seen that Cheetham was no match for him. He had neither the finish nor the venom. Compared to the sentences of "Aristides," as polished and attractive as they were bitter and ill-tempered, Cheetham's periods seemed coarse and tame. The letters of Junius did not make themselves felt in English political life more than did this pamphlet in the political circles of New York. It was novel, it was brilliantly able, ...

— A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 • DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

... seemed to intensify the normal sunshine of her disposition. She smiled and she coaxed answering smiles from the severest mortal; she dimpled and laughter bubbled up to meet her chuckling mirth. It was impossible to remain cross or ill-tempered when Shirley danced into a room and it is to be feared that her gifts of cajolery bought her off from often needed reproofs. It was never easy ...

— Rainbow Hill • Josephine Lawrence

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