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Definition of the day : « short-tempered »
- adj touchy
- adj quick to anger
- adj grouchy
- He was ever a short-tempered man, intolerant of irrelevancies.
- Extract from : « Mistress Wilding » by Rafael Sabatini
- He was a short-tempered man of no great manners, and he only grunted his response.
- Extract from : « John Splendid » by Neil Munro
- “I wish to apologize for being so short-tempered this morning,” he began.
- Extract from : « The Cricket » by Marjorie Cooke
- In the morning they will often be sullen and short-tempered.
- Extract from : « Life in a Railway Factory » by Alfred Williams
- I'll get blamed if you go, and he's short-tempered this morning.
- Extract from : « Hobson's Choice » by Harold Brighouse
- All of them are short-tempered, and the bars of their captivity not too strong.
- Extract from : « From Sea to Sea » by Rudyard Kipling
- The wind, it seemed, too, was expressing a little of the afternoon's short-tempered.
- Extract from : « The Land of Look Behind » by Paul Cameron Brown
- Please forgive me for being (a) short-tempered; (b) tedious.
- Extract from : « The Whirligig of Time » by Wayland Wells Williams
- To take offense at slight provocation was ridiculed as "short-tempered."
- Extract from : « Bushido, the Soul of Japan » by Inazo Nitob
- The examiner too could be impulsive, was indeed apt to be short-tempered.
- Extract from : « The Roll-Call » by Arnold Bennett