What is "bad-tempered"

Usage examples of "bad-tempered".

Whoever Shellduck was he certainly knew ways of disappearing with the loot leaving Big Tommy looking small and the rest of the gang bad-tempered and unrewarded.

He gamboled happily with the lambs, clucked and fussed over the ewes, and even the ancient, bad-tempered ram turned gentle in his presence.

She had black hair scraped up into an angry-looking chignon and was very bad-tempered when he arrived.

It hit a nanosecond later, the same way the wave back in Sydney that had sworn him off bodysurfing forever had hit: like a bad-tempered Sumo wrestler.

In defeat, he was proving as bad-tempered and sarcastic as Joseph the Gamecock or Thraxton the Braggart ever had.

She chugged and dodged through bad-tempered traffic and tried to block out the irritatingly chirpy sky blimp shouting about the new spring fashions on sale at Bloomingdale's.

And you have a look at Villiers showing to better advantage than he does across a gaming table or making a cubitiflection in front of a bad-tempered woman of middle years.

Presumably the breeding of bad-tempered tons of bacon on the hoof satisfied his urge to distinguish himself as a gentleman scientist.

He said John Chen was not drunk or bad-tempered, anything like that, but seemed in good spirits, though earlier at the club, the Tong Lau Club, he'd appeared irritable and cut the mah-jong game short.

He said John Chen was not drunk or bad-tempered, anything like that, but seemed in good spirits, though earlier at the club, the Tong LauClub, he'd appeared irritable and cut the mahjong game short.