ill-tempered

Modifies a noun

• affair: An ill-tempered affair throughout, Wales had two men sent off and eventually fell to a 78th-minute winner.
• clash: No quarter was asked nor given in a fiercely contested, often ill-tempered clash from which Leeds emerged with flying colors.
• meeting: Danny Mills's untidy, scrambled second-half winner summed up an unsatisfactory and ill-tempered meeting between these two old rivals.
• match: Holland's World Cup dreams were ended by the Portuguese after an ill-tempered match that saw two players from each side sent off.
• encounter: But such moments of brilliance are likely to be forgotten amid the acrimony of an ill-tempered encounter in which eight players were booked.
• person: To be constantly living with an ill-tempered person, must be dreadful.

Modifying Another Word

• often: No quarter was asked nor given in a fiercely contested, often ill-tempered clash from which Leeds emerged with flying colors.
• particularly: Marion Crawford, Queen Elizabeth's governess has told several stories about one particularly ill-tempered Corgi.
• very: A real, life, very ill-tempered donkey on a rope!
• increasingly: It's been going on since the plans were announced in 2004 and has got increasingly ill-tempered.