nasty-tempered
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Not Neal Gamby, the nasty-tempered, aggressively striving school administrator he now plays in “Vice Principals.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2017
Raul Roa, the director of the new diplomacy, is a nasty-tempered college professor on leave from Havana University, where he taught sociology and headed the faculty of social sciences.
From Time Magazine Archive
He went to a pet shop and procured "a nasty-tempered fugitive from an organ-grinder's beat," though in his columns Fowler called the monkey "Ponce de Leon."
From Time Magazine Archive
"Don't you remember telling me that Warrigal was such a nasty-tempered brute that he allowed no one but yourself to touch him?"
From My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
She always gave a wide berth to a man who looked nasty-tempered.
From The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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