nasty-tempered
Example Sentences
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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
Frank and I were thoroughly at home with nasty-tempered volcanoes, and knew their tricks and their manners down to the ground far too well to be in the least afraid of them.
From The White Man's Foot by Allen, Grant
She always gave a wide berth to a man who looked nasty-tempered.
From The Shuttle by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
