Example sentences for: ill-tempered

How can you use “ill-tempered” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • According to Arizona reporters, he's ill-tempered and vindictive toward the local press; but he charms the socks off national reporters.

  • Tank Abbott, an ill-tempered, 270-pound street fighter, knocks out hapless opponent John Matua in 15 seconds.

  • Be warned that, as is the case with most chat rooms, you have to wade through a lot of ill-tempered bluster to find the occasional entry that's genuinely thoughtful or informative; but a recent Slate redesign makes it easier to zoom through to the good stuff.)

  • A civil, slow-moving magazine became a chaotic, ill-tempered one.

  • It is the diminutive form of vespa wasp, and was a nickname given to particularly ill-tempered individuals.


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