ill temper
Example Sentences
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Such a choice almost certainly would have ended in death, either from starvation, exposure or from the ill temper of another grizzly.
From Washington Times
Brimming with regret and felled by his own ill temper, Springsteen’s narrator hits rock bottom — quite literally — with “Stones.”
From Salon
Eerily, they were given a precise phenotypic marker, a blemish above the left eyebrow, and were given, too, the ill temper associated with age.
From The New Yorker
Part of the ill temper was produced by the death of Bobby Kennedy only two and a half months earlier.
From The New Yorker
“Good morning,” Arthur said sulkily, and sat down himself with an air of sullen ill temper.
From Literature
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