How To Use Bad-tempered In A Sentence
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Lack of testosterone leaves men bad-tempered, emotional, depressed and suffering from Irritable Male Syndrome, scientist Gerald Lincoln told BBC radio's recently.
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He was bad-tempered and graceless in defeat.
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He was a rotund, florid, bad-tempered, red-haired man who would shout orders.
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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.
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I'm afraid I was rather bad-tempered yesterday; I think I owe you an apology.
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Why was this bad-tempered, miserly, sleepless bachelor so capable of rising above both religious and scientific prejudices, with practical and theoretical insights that are still valuable today?
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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.
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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.’
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Anyone who has been at a bad-tempered church council meeting or synod will know what it can be at its worst.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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Although it made great copy for the newspapers, it suggested the Rocket was in bad-tempered mode - and some felt he might be about to self-destruct.
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It was that kind of match, always tetchy, often bad-tempered.
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Now, before you begin forming the impression that my beloved is a bad-tempered miser, I must put you straight.
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Gabriel got out of the car and side by side they walked into Belmodes, Sloane Street, in bad-tempered silence.
COFFIN IN FASHION
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As Aunt Matilde's pain grew worse, she became too bad-tempered to see anyone.
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After all, they are dirty and smelly, bad-tempered and rude.
Meet Wild Boars by Meg Rosoff: Book summary
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He was as cranky as a bad-tempered goat, always putting his head down and charging into things that annoyed him.
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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.
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Li, a white-collar worker, found herself bad-tempered, depressed and irritated with others.
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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.
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I'm afraid I was rather bad-tempered yesterday; I think I owe you an apology.
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He wrote: ‘The food is disgusting, the hotels over-priced and the pubs are full of drunken, bad-tempered men.’
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Anyone who has been at a bad-tempered church council meeting or synod will know what it can be at its worst.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yesterday's bad-tempered exchange threatened to overshadow what should have been a constructive insight into the state of broadband in Britain.
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But if Mr. Trichet got encouragement on the Greek front at the summit, he will have been dismayed at the bad-tempered standoff between the new Irish government and its creditors.
EU States Duck Financing Challenge
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He is the grumpiest doc on the box and has a bad-tempered bedside manner.
The Sun
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I'm afraid I was rather bad-tempered yesterday; I think I owe you an apology.
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NEW YORK Michael J. Fox says the timing was perfect when Denis Leary asked him last year to star in a five-episode arc of Rescue Me as a bad-tempered, drug-abusing paraplegic.
Denis Leary revives 'Rescue Me' with friend Michael J. Fox
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Whenever Billy comes visiting, she becomes bad-tempered and angry, leaving Sarah bewildered and Annie even more upset.
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Though it remained bad-tempered, captious, and unfriendly, it never went short of food.
CHARMED LIFE
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At the world championships in Budapest in 1997 Chagaev, who was then 19, beat Savon in a bad-tempered and controversial heavyweight final.
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Unfortunately the compères struck a bad-tempered note at this otherwise congenial event.
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I doubt if Kate will exhibit the kind of behavior seen on some reality TV shows about bad-tempered brides.
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But it's still a huge achievement - a mighty course perched above sharp clifftops overlooking the bad-tempered North Sea.
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City of York completed a superb double over a rapidly-improving Rotherham side with a 5-2 victory in a bad-tempered game.
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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.
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When he isn't working, he's grumpy and bad-tempered.
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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.
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‘Well,’ she replied, ‘we don't really have people who are as bad-tempered as you.'
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When his headaches developed Nick became bad-tempered and even violent.
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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.
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She's the one who gives you all your ideas and inspiration, but she's a right bad-tempered cow.
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Off Earwig must go to an adoptive home, a sinister bungalow occupied by the witch Bella Yaga and her bad-tempered, red-eyed companion, the Mandrake.
A Prize Winner With a Poignant Sense of Loss
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All the customers were different, and as he was a new waiter, he didn't know how to tell the difference between a good-tempered and a bad-tempered one.
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I'm afraid I was rather bad-tempered yesterday; I think I owe you an apology.
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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.
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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.
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Even so, better - perhaps - the fake-Scots of this bad-tempered poet's youth than the prosy dreariness of his maturity.
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Walter – I never said that Leavis was bad-tempered in his writing.
The Grumpy Critic « Tales from the Reading Room
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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.
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So we are getting to be a lot of bad-tempered old buffers.
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Anyone who has been at a bad-tempered church council meeting or synod will know what it can be at its worst.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bad-tempered Cooper, says Mr. Richardson, had "paranoia: paranoia made for Anglophobia, the only form of patriotism that he permitted himself.
A Shortsighted View of Picasso
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She wore a black swimsuit, a huge straw hat with the brim pinned back and a bad-tempered scowl.
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It soon became apparent why, in what turned out to be one of the most personal and bad-tempered debates in the US during this campaign, at times reaching levels of child-like tantrums unlikely to be witnessed much outside a school playground.
Midterm elections live blog - Monday 18 October
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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.
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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.
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If the closing minutes were meaty and bad-tempered, the opening exchanges had been more pleasant if no less intense.
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The call to reopen the treaty will run into strong resistance, with European leaders exhausted by the bad-tempered nine years it took to finalise the Lisbon pact which came into force last year.
France and Germany hijack strict new eurozone budget regime
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The arrival of the census form routinely sparks a bad-tempered debate about intrusiveness and unreasonable authority.
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Rosenthal – creator of TV series London's Burning and co-author, with Barbra Streisand, of the film Yentl – includes among his dramatis personae a bonkers lyricist, an arrogant director, a bad-tempered composer and a bombastic producer.
This week's new theatre
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It had no effect whatsoever, except to leave her feeling battered and thoroughly bad-tempered.
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A thin, bad-tempered breeze blew sand into our faces and whipped up under my skirt.
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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.
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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?
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That is they tend to be aggressive, narrow-minded, egocentric, irritable, ignorant, and bad-tempered.
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Though it remained bad-tempered, captious, and unfriendly, it never went short of food.
CHARMED LIFE
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He was a man of undoubted genius, but bad-tempered, egocentric, and impossible to live with.
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I don't know what's got into him recently; he's become very bad-tempered.
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The embarrassment capped a bad-tempered exchange that ended with the PM trying to walk off the set early in a sulk.
The Sun
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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.
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It was a bad-tempered match with fights breaking out sporadically amidst the rugby.
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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.
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I'm afraid I was rather bad-tempered yesterday; I think I owe you an apology.
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It is his illness that makes him bad-tempered.
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I've also a bad-tempered PI who prefers shooting people to dealing with them, and never says anything nice when she can say something snarky.
Writing Question: Unlikable Protagonists
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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.
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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.
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Like many creative individuals, she can be very bad-tempered.
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You are not a bad-tempered person.
Why Am I Afraid to be Assertive?
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But then I read that ‘a plane was forced back to earth after a bad-tempered cat attacked the pilot.’
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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.
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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.
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The last ten minutes was a scrappy, even bad-tempered, affair, which offered little in the way of pretty football.
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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.
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For the first couple of years, I was angry, permanently bad-tempered, and sexually frustrated.
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Kilkenny won a rather bad-tempered game by 2-14 to 2-9.
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I made a full recovery but my older son has become very bad-tempered.
The Sun
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His blond hair was buzzed close to his scalp, and his complexion was reddened slightly from the sun, giving his head the look of a bad-tempered peach.
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The rough clientele of the pub, understanding nothing except that a formerly bad-tempered dispute was being amicably resolved, cheered noisily.
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The east had grown pale, there was a murmur from the dark forests on either bank, the timorous chirping or bad-tempered squawk of a bird, a faint fragrance of burning gumwood from the fishing villages established on the river bank, where, in dancing spots of light, the women were tending their fires.
The Keepers of the King's Peace
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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.
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We came to a motorway where there were too many roadworks, too many cars and too many bad-tempered drivers.
TOY SHOP
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The gaudy maps they passed around at the Spanish court—vast waters with pictures of sea serpents smiling ominously in the waves, weird configurations of terra incognita promising cities strewn with gems, countries populated by Amazons or anthropophagi or talking animals—translated into nothing more than pretty beaches and bad-tempered inhabitants with very sharp arrows.
Dream State
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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.
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THERE were nine yellow cards plus a red in this bad-tempered affair.
The Sun
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If he doesn't eat, his sugar is low, then he tends to get very argumentative, moody and bad-tempered.
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He was a rotund, florid, bad-tempered, red-haired man who would shout orders.
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You are a bad-tempered, petulant and irritable man lacking in your professional duties to your patients.
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A thin, bad-tempered breeze blew sand into our faces and whipped up under my skirt.
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He's usually the most charming of men to work for, but just lately ... talk about bad-tempered.
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It's unusual for Donald to be so bad-tempered.
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I am a very bad-tempered person.
Times, Sunday Times
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After much bad-tempered toing and froing - plus a few legal threats - the insurer coughed up.
Times, Sunday Times
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The proposed intention will create bad-tempered, frustrated, angry drivers, who will be forced to take risks they otherwise would never dream of doing.