sharp-tempered
Example Sentences
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Minnesota's Commissioner of Education, John Gunderson Rockwell, is a tall, razory man, sharp-nosed, sharp-witted, sharp-tempered.
From Time Magazine Archive
For several chapters Greene's sister Alice runs away with the story, fights her way back to respectability, grows heroic without ceasing to be an outraged, sharp-tempered, occasionally foolish female.
From Time Magazine Archive
When they gulped their meals, between duels, they were physically ragged and sharp-tempered.
From The Dueling Machine by Bova, Ben
"I don't know that I claim spiritual kinship with a ghoul," said I; "especially such a very sharp-tempered ghoul."
From The Eye of Osiris by Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)
He always was rather a sharp-tempered dog, so I did not answer him.
From A Winter Nosegay Being Tales for Children at Christmastide by Crane, Walter
