hot-tempered

Example Sentences

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A welter of memoirs and biographies have traced their colorful lives as well as their relationships with one another and with their hot-tempered father, David.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Detractors considered him a hot-tempered, arrogant bully and dubbed him "Hurricane Billy."

From Reuters • Aug. 7, 2023

Liverpool put their recent Premier League struggles behind them to end Manchester City's unbeaten run in an enthralling and hot-tempered encounter at Anfield, which saw Jurgen Klopp sent off.

From BBC • Oct. 16, 2022

In comics lore, Namor McKenzie is a hot-tempered half-human, half-Atlantean being who is the ruler of the undersea kingdom of Atlantis.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2022

When the three had left the stage, the hot-tempered boy remained, just as Scythe Faraday had said earlier in the day.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman