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Definition of bad-tempered in English: bad-temperedadjective ˌbadˈtɛmpədˌbædˈtɛmpərd 1Easily annoyed or made angry. seldom has there been a more naughty and bad-tempered child Example sentencesExamples - Mr Layton was due before a disciplinary committee to answer charges that he was unhelpful to Pocklington's new arts centre and its staff, and sarcastic and bad-tempered in general.
- What prompted the Weekly Standard to publish his collection of bad-tempered, ignorant, off-the-mark comments about him and about contemporary literature is a greater mystery.
- The proposed intention will create bad-tempered, frustrated, angry drivers, who will be forced to take risks they otherwise would never dream of doing.
- Here we're introduced to some of the civic and military leaders of the ape pack, led by Thade, an ornery, scowling, bad-tempered ape if there ever was one.
- Lack of testosterone leaves men bad-tempered, emotional, depressed and suffering from Irritable Male Syndrome, scientist Gerald Lincoln told BBC radio's recently.
- As you approached a bazaar you would come across a traffic jam made up of bumbling herds of fat-tailed sheep, strings of bad-tempered camels and heavily-laden tractors bringing in farm-folk with their crops.
- ‘Well,’ she replied, ‘we don't really have people who are as bad-tempered as you.'
- What could have been a bland disease-of-the-week series gets a shot of adrenaline whenever Dr Gregory House, a bad-tempered, contemptuous diagnostician, is made to exercise his bedside manner.
- He wrote: ‘The food is disgusting, the hotels over-priced and the pubs are full of drunken, bad-tempered men.’
- Thousands of desperate-looking bad-tempered people had descended on Oxford Street in general and Selfridges in particular and were swarming like so many mad bees looking for a so-called bargain.
- Li, a white-collar worker, found herself bad-tempered, depressed and irritated with others.
- Whenever Billy comes visiting, she becomes bad-tempered and angry, leaving Sarah bewildered and Annie even more upset.
- That is they tend to be aggressive, narrow-minded, egocentric, irritable, ignorant, and bad-tempered.
- But then I read that ‘a plane was forced back to earth after a bad-tempered cat attacked the pilot.’
- All the rest had found suitable partners, but Kalemeleme was so gentle that he would not stand up for his own rights, or anyone else's, while Kinku was so bad-tempered that no one could stand his tantrums for long.
- He was a rotund, florid, bad-tempered, red-haired man who would shout orders.
- When he isn't working, he's grumpy and bad-tempered.
- You are a bad-tempered, petulant and irritable man lacking in your professional duties to your patients.
- She has a voluble and attractive personality, but even if she were cranky and bad-tempered I'd still go there because the food's really good.
- The Japanese say you should cook food in a state of Zen-like equilibrium, giving any bad-tempered chefs the day off because the mood will communicate to the dish being prepared.
Synonyms irritable, irascible, tetchy, testy, grumpy, grouchy, crotchety, in a (bad) mood, cantankerous, curmudgeonly, ill-tempered, ill-natured, ill-humoured, peevish, having got out of bed the wrong side, cross, as cross as two sticks fractious, disagreeable, pettish, crabbed, crabby, waspish, prickly, peppery, touchy, scratchy, crusty, splenetic, shrewish, short-tempered, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, dyspeptic, choleric, bilious, liverish, cross-grained informal snappish, snappy, chippy, on a short fuse, short-fused British informal shirty, stroppy, narky, ratty, eggy, like a bear with a sore head North American informal cranky, ornery, peckish, soreheaded Australian/New Zealand informal snaky informal, dated waxy, miffy - 1.1 Characterized by anger.
Example sentencesExamples - During a bad-tempered exchange, Mr Lawlor said the retired developer had named several ministers as having been at the meeting as part of his ‘wild, wicked allegations.’
- In a foul-mouthed and bad-tempered affair, the authority was meeting for the first time since the local election two weeks ago that wrested control away from the Labour group for only the second time in 68 years.
- It was a bad-tempered match with fights breaking out sporadically amidst the rugby.
- It was that kind of match, always tetchy, often bad-tempered.
- Kilkenny won a rather bad-tempered game by 2-14 to 2-9.
- The bad-tempered week-night tie between two clubs in the Hull Sunday League at the city's Costello playing fields ended with a free-for-all as spectators piled onto the pitch and kicked and punched a player on the floor.
- The subsequent round-table sequence of statements from prime ministers at the end of a bad-tempered evening did more harm than good, he told officials.
- But it's still a huge achievement - a mighty course perched above sharp clifftops overlooking the bad-tempered North Sea.
- Trouble was avoided but a player was struck by a coin in a bad-tempered match which boasted the biggest security operation since Euro '96.
- City of York completed a superb double over a rapidly-improving Rotherham side with a 5-2 victory in a bad-tempered game.
- Yesterday's bad-tempered exchange threatened to overshadow what should have been a constructive insight into the state of broadband in Britain.
- After a sometimes bad-tempered meeting on Monday, they also agreed, however, that an area east of the main railway line and surrounding Headbourne Worthy should be excluded from the recommendation.
- In what was a physical, bad-tempered affair, scenes that could be associated with a Saturday night brawl in Dodge City erupted midway in the second half.
- At the world championships in Budapest in 1997 Chagaev, who was then 19, beat Savon in a bad-tempered and controversial heavyweight final.
- Whatever the opposite of rose-coloured glasses may be, this book is it: whatever occurs, whether for good or bad, is marked by a bad-tempered refusal to accept anything other than the darkest interpretation of events.
- For the neutrals, it was a memorable end to a bad-tempered, stop - start affair with the match's two tries coming in that injury time period.
- The team was barred from the Eastern Junior Alliance league when their match with Canvey Island side Concord Rangers ended in chaos, after what police described as a bad-tempered match.
- If the closing minutes were meaty and bad-tempered, the opening exchanges had been more pleasant if no less intense.
- This attempt at self-denial lasted approximately one minute, after which I gave up and found myself agreeing with all the bad-tempered, curmudgeonly opinions being aired.
- Is there a thinking man or woman alive in Europe who is not depressed by the prospect of spending yet more years of bad-tempered debate on such mind-numbing details?
Synonyms unkind, unpleasant, unfriendly, disagreeable, inconsiderate, uncharitable, rude, churlish, spiteful, malicious, mean, mean-spirited, ill-tempered, ill-natured, ill-humoured, hostile, vicious, malevolent, evil-minded, surly, obnoxious, poisonous, venomous, vindictive, malign, malignant, cantankerous, hateful, hurtful, cruel, wounding, abusive
Derivatives adverb My new wife, Daisy, and my mother were in the kitchen bad-temperedly preparing tea. Example sentencesExamples - She heaves a sigh, and reaches bad-temperedly for her laptop.
- Grumbling, Ramirez stumbled bad-temperedly from the ruins, collecting firewood from the luxuriant trees that grew in the ruined courtyards.
- Dani eyes me, and after a moment, asks bad-temperedly, ‘Do you want my coat?’
- Their once-charming rivulets now thunder down the hillside, bad-temperedly dragging along everything in their path.
Definition of bad-tempered in US English: bad-temperedadjectiveˌbædˈtɛmpərdˌbadˈtempərd 1Easily annoyed or made angry. in a heat wave, many people become increasingly bad-tempered Example sentencesExamples - She has a voluble and attractive personality, but even if she were cranky and bad-tempered I'd still go there because the food's really good.
- That is they tend to be aggressive, narrow-minded, egocentric, irritable, ignorant, and bad-tempered.
- When he isn't working, he's grumpy and bad-tempered.
- Mr Layton was due before a disciplinary committee to answer charges that he was unhelpful to Pocklington's new arts centre and its staff, and sarcastic and bad-tempered in general.
- All the rest had found suitable partners, but Kalemeleme was so gentle that he would not stand up for his own rights, or anyone else's, while Kinku was so bad-tempered that no one could stand his tantrums for long.
- ‘Well,’ she replied, ‘we don't really have people who are as bad-tempered as you.'
- The Japanese say you should cook food in a state of Zen-like equilibrium, giving any bad-tempered chefs the day off because the mood will communicate to the dish being prepared.
- He was a rotund, florid, bad-tempered, red-haired man who would shout orders.
- Lack of testosterone leaves men bad-tempered, emotional, depressed and suffering from Irritable Male Syndrome, scientist Gerald Lincoln told BBC radio's recently.
- He wrote: ‘The food is disgusting, the hotels over-priced and the pubs are full of drunken, bad-tempered men.’
- Whenever Billy comes visiting, she becomes bad-tempered and angry, leaving Sarah bewildered and Annie even more upset.
- As you approached a bazaar you would come across a traffic jam made up of bumbling herds of fat-tailed sheep, strings of bad-tempered camels and heavily-laden tractors bringing in farm-folk with their crops.
- Li, a white-collar worker, found herself bad-tempered, depressed and irritated with others.
- The proposed intention will create bad-tempered, frustrated, angry drivers, who will be forced to take risks they otherwise would never dream of doing.
- What prompted the Weekly Standard to publish his collection of bad-tempered, ignorant, off-the-mark comments about him and about contemporary literature is a greater mystery.
- Here we're introduced to some of the civic and military leaders of the ape pack, led by Thade, an ornery, scowling, bad-tempered ape if there ever was one.
- But then I read that ‘a plane was forced back to earth after a bad-tempered cat attacked the pilot.’
- What could have been a bland disease-of-the-week series gets a shot of adrenaline whenever Dr Gregory House, a bad-tempered, contemptuous diagnostician, is made to exercise his bedside manner.
- You are a bad-tempered, petulant and irritable man lacking in your professional duties to your patients.
- Thousands of desperate-looking bad-tempered people had descended on Oxford Street in general and Selfridges in particular and were swarming like so many mad bees looking for a so-called bargain.
Synonyms irritable, irascible, tetchy, testy, grumpy, grouchy, crotchety, in a mood, in a bad mood, cantankerous, curmudgeonly, ill-tempered, ill-natured, ill-humoured, peevish, having got out of bed the wrong side, cross, as cross as two sticks - 1.1 Characterized by anger or ungraciousness.
Mary was feeling very bad-tempered Example sentencesExamples - The team was barred from the Eastern Junior Alliance league when their match with Canvey Island side Concord Rangers ended in chaos, after what police described as a bad-tempered match.
- Trouble was avoided but a player was struck by a coin in a bad-tempered match which boasted the biggest security operation since Euro '96.
- The bad-tempered week-night tie between two clubs in the Hull Sunday League at the city's Costello playing fields ended with a free-for-all as spectators piled onto the pitch and kicked and punched a player on the floor.
- If the closing minutes were meaty and bad-tempered, the opening exchanges had been more pleasant if no less intense.
- During a bad-tempered exchange, Mr Lawlor said the retired developer had named several ministers as having been at the meeting as part of his ‘wild, wicked allegations.’
- City of York completed a superb double over a rapidly-improving Rotherham side with a 5-2 victory in a bad-tempered game.
- For the neutrals, it was a memorable end to a bad-tempered, stop - start affair with the match's two tries coming in that injury time period.
- Kilkenny won a rather bad-tempered game by 2-14 to 2-9.
- Yesterday's bad-tempered exchange threatened to overshadow what should have been a constructive insight into the state of broadband in Britain.
- After a sometimes bad-tempered meeting on Monday, they also agreed, however, that an area east of the main railway line and surrounding Headbourne Worthy should be excluded from the recommendation.
- At the world championships in Budapest in 1997 Chagaev, who was then 19, beat Savon in a bad-tempered and controversial heavyweight final.
- But it's still a huge achievement - a mighty course perched above sharp clifftops overlooking the bad-tempered North Sea.
- In a foul-mouthed and bad-tempered affair, the authority was meeting for the first time since the local election two weeks ago that wrested control away from the Labour group for only the second time in 68 years.
- In what was a physical, bad-tempered affair, scenes that could be associated with a Saturday night brawl in Dodge City erupted midway in the second half.
- It was a bad-tempered match with fights breaking out sporadically amidst the rugby.
- This attempt at self-denial lasted approximately one minute, after which I gave up and found myself agreeing with all the bad-tempered, curmudgeonly opinions being aired.
- Is there a thinking man or woman alive in Europe who is not depressed by the prospect of spending yet more years of bad-tempered debate on such mind-numbing details?
- Whatever the opposite of rose-coloured glasses may be, this book is it: whatever occurs, whether for good or bad, is marked by a bad-tempered refusal to accept anything other than the darkest interpretation of events.
- The subsequent round-table sequence of statements from prime ministers at the end of a bad-tempered evening did more harm than good, he told officials.
- It was that kind of match, always tetchy, often bad-tempered.
Synonyms unkind, unpleasant, unfriendly, disagreeable, inconsiderate, uncharitable, rude, churlish, spiteful, malicious, mean, mean-spirited, ill-tempered, ill-natured, ill-humoured, hostile, vicious, malevolent, evil-minded, surly, obnoxious, poisonous, venomous, vindictive, malign, malignant, cantankerous, hateful, hurtful, cruel, wounding, abusive
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