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Irascible stepmother strangely embarrassed?
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short-tempered
Word definitions for short-tempered in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to a person who is easily angered, who is known to frequently lose his or her temper.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ He tends to be very short-tempered when he's hungry. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Did they guess why she was so short-tempered of late? ▪ During those months I became anxious, short-tempered and critical. ▪ He is too short-tempered ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander" [syn: choleric , irascible , hotheaded , hot-tempered , quick-tempered , short ]
Usage examples of short-tempered.
Everyone got very short-tempered, and there probably would have been serious trouble if the tide had not come in and washed a few whale carcasses and dead elasmosaurs onto the beach.
Everyone had given up by now except Seregil, who'd grown increasingly short-tempered as he pursued one false scent after another.