What is "ill-tempered"

Usage examples of "ill-tempered".

Christian turning gradually into the ill-tempered agnostic, entangled in the end of a feud of which he never understood the beginning, blighted with a sort of hereditary boredom with he knows not what, and already weary of hearing what he has never heard.

Then twenty-two years ago, after nearly twenty years of ill-tempered confrontation with his fellow theorists, he had, with characteristic abruptness, resigned from his position at Cambridge and retreated to Launde Abbey to pursue his theories without carping interference from lesser minds, his brilliance and loud vocal intolerance of the dry, crusty world endemic to academia creating a media legend of Bohemian eccentricity in the process.

After leaving Victoria in front of the hotel, he rode the ill-tempered but bighearted Cyclone out to the end of town, unsaddled then unbridled him and set him free.

In spite of this little scene, Winn Caspar was not an ill-tempered boy.

Obviously, over the past months, he had become inured to her foul behavior, but now he saw her for what she was, an ill-tempered, foulmouthed, ungrateful monster.

He began with the little emissary from Gamma Virginis B, summarized his encounters down through the ill-tempered Sirian.

Then twenty-two years ago, after nearly twenty years of ill-tempered confrontation with his fellow theorists, he had, with characteristic abruptness, resigned from his position at Cambridge and retreated to Launde Abbey to pursue his theories without carping interference from lesser minds, his brilliance and loud vocal intolerance of the dry, crusty world endemic to academia creating a media legend of Bohemian eccentricity in the process.

The horses were barely broken, thick-limbed yet tall, a breed the Irregulars claimed was their ownbloodlines that included Nathi destriers, Mott carthorses and Genabarü drays, all drawn together to produce a large, sturdy, ill-tempered animal with a surprisingly wide back that made riding them a luxury.

Rotten animal, he thought, despising horses for their constant trickeries and treacheries and ill-tempered dangerousness.

I looked like Mother Goodwill's older brother—as ill-tempered an old duffer as ever gnashed his gums at the carryings-on of the younger generation.

That it was, in fact, almost as though Bill Bradbury had come back from the dead to confront his ill-tempered replacement.

She had been becoming progressively more ill-tempered as the day wore on, and finding that their last known link between Arkos and the Continuum Void manager had flown the nest had apparently been the last click.

He rearranged saddle-pad and pack to make it appear that Martis was using the ill-tempered beast as a pack animal.

From the Mull tae Dunnet Heid there isna another body could have brought Jamie Waugh to his faither as stone-sober and ill-tempered as the dayhe was weaned.

Yet the Harper, for all her skill with the sword, was hesitant to tangle with the obviously ill-tempered little man.