How To Use Ill-tempered In A Sentence
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Lord Allen may have been wrong in his head, or ill-advised, or foolishly over-zealous, but his ill-tempered upbraiding of the Dublin Corporation for what he called their treasonable extravagance in thus honouring Swift, whom he deemed an enemy of the King, was the act of a fool.
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish
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The 'minx' shook her curls, and flirted through the window with a handsome but ill-tempered looking man on a fine horse, who praised her 'golden locks,' as he called them; and oddly enough, when Melchior said that the man was a lout, and that the locks in question were corkscrewy carrot shavings, she only seemed to like the man and his compliments the more.
In the Yule-Log Glow, Book II Christmas Tales from 'Round the World
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It was the first indication that the game could become ill-tempered, and it also marked out Hammell as the fall guy.
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Their exchanges are often ill-tempered and impatient.
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Their ill-tempered personalisation of the controversy through sourly self-justificatory sound-bites merely brought broadcasting disputation to an unseemly new low.
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She told the Evening Press the ‘arrogant attitude of a small group of councillors’ during ill-tempered meetings effectively forced her out, amid complaints about the way minutes were presented.
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Matt must be doing something right to incite such an ill-tempered F-word peppered diatribe.
Sound Politics: "Laramie Project:" Get Me Re-Write
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A typical review from the Yelp website observed: "But what really made the place so "entertaining—and entertaining really is the right word—were the incredibly ill-tempered wait staff.
Eatery Closes After Decades-Long Family Spat
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‘It was a fiery, ill-tempered, ill-disciplined game,’ he said.
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Frequently ill-tempered and ill-used, their natural ability to survive for long periods without food or water nevertheless makes them valuable both as baggage animals and troop-carriers.
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But a series of ill-tempered and evasive interviews left Weiner in an even more uncomfortable position.
Weinergate limps on as congressman adds new wrinkle | Richard Adams
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Last season, during that preposterous and ill-tempered let-down of a mini-series they met in the final – which Madrid won – and this quarter-final could effectively be seen as this year's edition.
Real Madrid v Barcelona – as it happened | Jacob Steinberg
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One of the reasons why the debate about this year's Hugos has been so ferocious and (at times) ill-tempered is because while there are no pluckily ambitious outsiders to root for (such as Watts 'Blindsight in 2007 or McDonald's Brazyl in 2008), the list is also ignoring breakthrough genre successes such as Stephenie Meyer and Laurel K. Hamilton.
MIND MELD: The Hugo Awards - Success at Picking the Best, How Well it Represents the Genre, 2009 Predictions & Overlooked Titles
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Though charming and pleasant, she was too ill-tempered to be a perfect gentlewoman.
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But then he's a legendarily ill-tempered fellow whose wrath erupts with metronomic regularity.
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The defender acknowledges that, for the moment at least, he is best remembered for his ill-tempered confrontation with Advocaat when he was substituted at Celtic Park last November.
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They were foul smelling, ill-tempered beasts, but for crossing the desert, there were few better.
Archive 2009-12-01
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The occasion of her return to her parents was probably his increasing age and infirmity, as the only impression she retained of him in after life was that of a somewhat crusty and ill-tempered old man, with a huge bobwig, who always laid in bed.
Religion in Earnest
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He was awkward, prickly, ill-tempered, condescending and unpredictable.
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It was an ill-tempered game that made headlines back at home for trouble on and of the pitch.
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Should even the ill-tempered creature in its house of stone perish ?
HAMMERFALL
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His problem was rather the reverse, namely that he became aggressive, ill-tempered and moody.
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Buncan tried to picture the great rhino dragging a plow, furrow after endless furrow, while some ill-tempered fanner trailing behind berated him with orders and curses in equal measure.
The Lives of Felix Gunderson
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During the ludicrously extended results programme last week, Martin launched an ill-tempered attack on what she described as the ‘attitude’ of some of the female contestants.
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Buried under a layer of quilts he alternated between moodily staring at the paper, morosely changing channels, or just being a great big ill-tempered miserable lump.
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A fraught, ill-tempered game was replete with endeavour and intent.
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Ironically, the Irish have also been annoyed by several incidents during an ill-tempered match especially the decision to come off for bad light on Friday evening when conditions seemed no worse than they had been all day.
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The move came after after an ill-tempered Scottish Cup replay at Celtic Park on Wednesday which he described as "shameful".
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Objection 1: It would seem that the species of anger are unsuitably assigned by the Philosopher (Ethic. iv, 5) where he says that some angry persons are "choleric," some "sullen," and some "ill-tempered" or "stern.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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If their struggles against Lithuania, Iceland and the Faroe Islands are anything to go by, it will be another plodding effort, overtly physical, occasionally ill-tempered and, very possibly, without even a goal to enhance it.
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He was true to his word and bowed out gracefully after an ill-tempered special general meeting in Edinburgh.
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He had a Brooklyn accent and a face like an excessively ill-tempered Pekingese.
MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
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And off she would go; and come back, grey eyes blank, wide mouth twitchy, ill-tempered from the drugs, at 10 the next morning.
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Turkish veils, preceded by a Nubian outrider in semi-military livery; or, perhaps, a train of camels, ill-tempered and supercilious, craning their scrannel necks above the crowd, and laden with canvas bales scrawled over with Arabic addresses.
A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
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Uefa subsequently announced various charges against Mourinho, Madrid and Barça following the ill-tempered clash, while Barça also reported Mourinho to European football's governing body regarding his comments.
Real Madrid ask Uefa to ban six Barcelona players
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Hmas Tobruk's renowned can-do attitude came to the fore when a remote coastal landing was in jeopardy last month because of ill-tempered tides.
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Before long the reader begins to suspect that this ill-tempered diary is also intended as a kind of psychological case history.
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Buried under a layer of quilts he alternated between moodily staring at the paper, morosely changing channels, or just being a great big ill-tempered miserable lump.
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But when composure gave way to a series of ugly and ill-tempered clashes, there was only going to be one winner.
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Trauma, abuse, neglect, violence - all these things can turn a simple child into an angry, ill-tempered, malign adult.
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My dad was usually a passive-aggressive person, only when my mother pushed certain buttons did he tend to get irritated and ill-tempered.
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He was awkward, prickly, ill-tempered, condescending and unpredictable.
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So it's discouraging to read this outdated and ill-tempered column in such a well-respected newspaper.
Obama Is Keeping U.S. in Unesco
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I got through the first day of the month, then, not too grumpy, or ungrateful, or ill-tempered.
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At Weydon fair, this corn thresher got drunk and spoke in an ill-tempered way of his wife.
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One of the reasons why the debate about this year's Hugos has been so ferocious and (at times) ill-tempered is because while there are no pluckily ambitious outsiders to root for (such as Watts 'Blindsight in 2007 or McDonald's Brazyl in 2008), the list is also ignoring breakthrough genre successes such as Stephenie Meyer and Laurel K. Hamilton.
MIND MELD: The Hugo Awards - Success at Picking the Best, How Well it Represents the Genre, 2009 Predictions & Overlooked Titles
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The titles of certain of the lost plays indicate the comic illumining character; a Self-pitier, a Self-chastiser, an Ill-tempered man, a
Complete Short Works of George Meredith
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Jerry, began to grow saturnine, and peevish, and ill-tempered.
CHAPTER XXVI
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An ill-tempered, compassionless moneygrubber, Scrooge runs roughshod over everyone he encounters.
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An increasingly ill-tempered match saw three players sent off before half-time.
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And it is time for him to stop sputtering ill-tempered threats, not only at the judiciary but also at the U.S. Constitution, which he repeatedly has sworn an oath to uphold.
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It's actually that the film looks realer and nastier and more uncomfortable than anything that gets made now: particularly the shrill and ill-tempered arguments between the crew members.
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Real Madrid's manager José Mourinho was pelted with objects as he made his way down the tunnel at Valencia after his side had survived a late penalty appeal in an ill-tempered 3-2 win which consolidated their league leadership.
La Liga round-up: José Mourinho pelted after Real win at Valencia
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It was an ill-tempered game.
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Life for her and her siblings on Blawearie farm is conditioned by the weather and the mood of her thrawn, ill-tempered father, John.
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The anaconda is a little too ill-tempered for me.
Joe Strong, the Boy Fish or Marvelous Doings in a Big Tank
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A generally ill-tempered second half boiled over into heated exchanges on a number of occasions.
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Fiske the writer is definitely an ill-tempered grouch, obsessed with meaningless distinctions.
Robert Hartwell Fiske strikes me as a prig and a bully « Motivated Grammar
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I think they're generally skittish and ill-tempered animals.
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It was a day of tense and often ill-tempered debate.
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He qualified the team for Euro 2004 and repeated the trick, in tough circumstances, for the World Cup, following an ill-tempered play-off against Turkey.
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My dad was usually a passive-aggressive person, only when my mother pushed certain buttons did he tend to get irritated and ill-tempered.
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All the indicators pointed towards a decent game of football although the game's early spell was fractious and ill-tempered.
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An increasingly ill-tempered match saw three players sent off before half-time.
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Be it a moment of zen, an epiphany, a vision, or even an ill-tempered chinese food inflicted dream, I've seen what's been shrouded carefully behind you… ahead of me.
End of Daze
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They bicker constantly, Clemen's Falstaffian appetites and uncontrollable bodily urges clashing with the priggishness and military discipline of Jimmy, a former air-force officer, and their ill-tempered dialogues are often hilarious.
Adios, Warlock
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An early visitor was Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, accompanied not by his customary pet, a lion, but by ‘an ill-tempered and unhouse-trained dog’.
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Both teams had a player sent off in an ill-tempered affair.
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