ill temper
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Other Word Forms
- ill-tempered adjective
- ill-temperedly adverb
- ill-temperedness noun
Etymology
Origin of ill temper
First recorded in 1595–1605
Example Sentences
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Such a choice almost certainly would have ended in death, either from starvation, exposure or from the ill temper of another grizzly.
From Washington Times
Brimming with regret and felled by his own ill temper, Springsteen’s narrator hits rock bottom — quite literally — with “Stones.”
From Salon
Eerily, they were given a precise phenotypic marker, a blemish above the left eyebrow, and were given, too, the ill temper associated with age.
From The New Yorker
Part of the ill temper was produced by the death of Bobby Kennedy only two and a half months earlier.
From The New Yorker
Guyana's foreign ministry immediately issued a statement decrying a "frenzied display of ill temper" from Venezuela - which it dubs the "new conquistadors" with a "greed for territory".
From BBC
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