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bad-tempered |
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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 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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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