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bad-tempered Definition

bad·-tempered (badtem′pərd)

adjective

having a bad temper or cranky disposition; irritable

bad-tempered Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • man: His wife Abigail was beautiful and intelligent, but he was a mean, bad-tempered man.
  • ladybird: The story of how a bad-tempered ladybird turns into a nicer, happier bug.
  • game: Keown appeared to elbow Mark Viduka and stamp on Lee Bowyer in a bad-tempered game.
  • encounter: In a entertaining and occasionally bad-tempered encounter, Maidenhead started positively and took the lead on eight minutes.
  • match: West Germany beat Holland in a very bad-tempered match.
  • speech: Gentleman said that he was going to make a bad-tempered speech.

Modifying Another Word

  • sometimes: A scrappy, sometimes bad-tempered game which was interrupted too often by the referee's whistle, but a welcome 3 points nonetheless.

Used with adjective complement

  • become: They may worry about simple things like dropping a cup, forgetting a name or becoming unusually bad-tempered.

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