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bad-tempered

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Adj.1.bad-tempered - annoyed and irritable
ill-natured - having an irritable and unpleasant disposition

bad-tempered
adjective irritable, cross, angry, tense, crabbed, fiery, grumbling, snarling, prickly, exasperated, edgy, snappy, sullen, touchy, surly, petulant, sulky, ill-tempered, irascible, cantankerous, tetchy, ratty Brit., N.Z. (informal) tooshie Austral. (slang) testy, chippy (informal) fretful, grouchy (informal) querulous, peevish, crabby, huffy, dyspeptic, choleric, splenetic, crotchety (informal) oversensitive, snappish, ill-humoured, liverish, narky Brit. (slang) out of humour << OPPOSITE good-tempered
Translations
bad-tempered [ˈbædˈtɛmpəd] adjde mal genio or carácter;
(temporary) → de mal humor
bad-tempered [ˈbædˈtɛmpəd] adj (by nature) → ayant mauvais caractère;
(on one occasion) → de mauvaise humeur
bad-tempered [ˈbædˈtɛmpəd] adjschlecht gelaunt;
(by nature) → übellaunig
bad-tempered [bædˈtɛmpəd] adjirritabile (= in bad mood); di malumore


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For she knew that in the lynx's lair was a litter of kittens, and she knew the lynx for a fierce, bad-tempered creature and a terrible fighter.
Suppose that a man is irritable when vexed: he is not even spoken of as a bad-tempered man, when in such circumstances he loses his temper somewhat, but rather is said to be affected.
The fellow is rather stupid and rather bad-tempered.
 
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