hot-tempered

[ hot-tem-perd ]
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adjective
  1. easily angered; short-tempered.

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How to use hot-tempered in a sentence

  • One Christmas time, a certain hot-tempered gentleman came to visit the Skratdjs.

    The Peace Egg and Other tales | Juliana Horatia Ewing
  • "You were snapping and squabbling just as usual this morning," said the hot-tempered gentleman.

    The Peace Egg and Other tales | Juliana Horatia Ewing
  • To avoid this domestic scene, the hot-tempered gentleman withdrew to the breakfast-room and took up a newspaper.

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