nasty-tempered

Gutless learns the hard way never to bet against the nefarious Captain Hook, sentenced to a time-out in the fearsome “boo box”, a metal chamber in which a pair of nasty-tempered scorpions are your only company.

Not Neal Gamby, the nasty-tempered, aggressively striving school administrator he now plays in “Vice Principals.”

Sin to him not being what it is to us, a vile treason against a loving Father, but a very ill-advised act against powerful, nasty-tempered spirits.

He's drinking and excited, and he has a strong and nasty-tempered force behind him.

That's the worst of this breed of brown portmanteaus—they're always nasty-tempered.