ill temper
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This one also involves a prominent woman of wealth and ill temper who is surrounded by people who want her money.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
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
“Good morning,” Arthur said sulkily, and sat down himself with an air of sullen ill temper.
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
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