ill temper
Example Sentences
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During a long country weekend, however, the hosts’ energetic hospitality betrays an edge, mainly to do with Paddy’s mercurial, insistent personality and flashes of ill temper toward Ant.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2024
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 • May 13, 2019
His ill temper only deepened when we reached Sinjar.
From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2016
In soccer, using ill temper as a management tool has earned Ferguson fame and respect.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 22, 2013
If they had been told to clean themselves and their rooms a deep resentment would have set in and the house would have reeked of ill temper.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
