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quick-tempered

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  1. quickly aroused to anger
    a hotheaded commander

How To Use quick-tempered In A Sentence

  • At the beginning of the play, we see Lear as a proud, vain, quick-tempered old king, not necessarily evil, but certainly not good.
  • This would only be funny if it was fighting midgets, because a quick-tempered brawling midget is Chuckles, my friend. WILL MMA SAVE THE REC CENTER?
  • David and Lyuba were like ice and water: He was a composed and restrained person, and never raised his voice; she was a bundle of energy, quick-tempered and excitable.
  • Their unpredictable disposition-timid, yet also quick-tempered and dangerous-was sometimes characteristic of bear clan members.
  • 'Thou knowest he whom Thou hast named the Lightning-flash of the Western World is a wrathful and quick-tempered man.' St Berthold's Feast Day. . . .
  • Henry III, though undeniably pious, could also be sharp-tongued and quick-tempered - he is recorded as tearing up the clothes of one of his court jesters, and throwing another into the Thames.
  • Please don't be capricious and quick-tempered any more.
  • A quick-tempered man will react more aggressively to an unpleasing situation than a placid one.
  • Though critics saw him as quick-tempered, harsh, abrupt, and arbitrary, practically everyone recognized his genius as a chief of staff.
  • Our mother, being quick-tempered, often resorted to caning as a form of discipline.
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