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Antonyms for ill-tempered
| Grammar : Adj |
Definition of ill-tempered
- adj irritable
- She's so rough and ill-tempered that she looks honest; but I shall be able to show her up yet.
- Extract from : « Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood » by George MacDonald
- Rosamond was ill-tempered and spent most of her time in her room.
- Extract from : « Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight » by Mathew Joseph Holt
- There is not another person in the world who thinks me ill-tempered but you.
- Extract from : « The Fairchild Family » by Mary Martha Sherwood
- There are the three Banellic girls, the most ill-tempered, ugly cats in England.
- Extract from : « The O'Ruddy » by Stephen Crane
- "He is an ill-tempered brute," he went on as soon as they had left the cockpit.
- Extract from : « At Aboukir and Acre » by George Alfred Henty
- "Or than me either, I'm afraid," he added, with a ruefulness that was not ill-tempered.
- Extract from : « Tristram of Blent » by Anthony Hope
- He was tired, hungry, and ill-tempered, but she was too desperate to care.
- Extract from : « Other Main-Travelled Roads » by Hamlin Garland
- But though the cook was so ill-tempered, the footman was quite different.
- Extract from : « Favorite Fairy Tales » by Logan Marshall
- He was tired, hungry and ill-tempered, but she was too desperate to care.
- Extract from : « Prairie Folks » by Hamlin Garland
- The Duke's face was as glum and his air as ill-tempered as I could wish.
- Extract from : « Simon Dale » by Anthony Hope
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