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
One night, when he was very nasty-tempered and I was coaxing him along, two men passed us, and one of them says, “Look at that brute!” and the other asks, “Which?” and they both laugh.
From The Boy Scout and Other Stories for Boys by Davis, Richard Harding
I’m a nasty-tempered dog if any one tries to take my bone away; aren’t I, my sons?”
From To Win or to Die A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze by Hardy, Paul
