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bad-tempered adjective [ ˌbadˈtɛmpəd ]

• easily annoyed or made angry.
• "seldom has there been a more naughty and bad-tempered child"
Similar: irritable, irascible, tetchy, testy, grumpy, grouchy, crotchety, in a (bad) mood, cantankerous, curmudgeonly, ill-tempered, ill-natured, ill-humoured, peevish, cross, fractious, disagreeable, pettish, crabbed, crabby, waspish, prickly, peppery, touchy, scratchy, crusty, splenetic, shrewish, short-tempered, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, dyspeptic, choleric, bilious, liverish, cross-grained, as cross as two sticks, snappish, snappy, chippy, on a short fuse, short-fused, shirty, stroppy, narky, ratty, eggy, like a bear with a sore head, cranky, ornery, peckish, soreheaded, snaky, waxy, miffy,
Opposite: good-humoured, affable,


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