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for ill-tempered
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Ill-tempered \Ill`-tem"pered\, a.
1. Of bad temper; grouchy; morose; crabbed; sour; peevish;
fretful; quarrelsome.
Syn: crabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, fussbudgety, grouchy,
grumpy, bad-tempered.
[1913 Webster]
2. Unhealthy; ill-conditioned. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]
So ill-tempered I am grown, that I am afraid I shall
catch cold, while all the world is afraid to melt
away. --Pepys.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
ill-tempered
adj 1: annoyed and irritable [syn: crabbed, crabby, cross,
fussy, grouchy, grumpy, bad-tempered, ill-
tempered]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
19 Moby Thesaurus words for "ill-tempered":
bad-tempered, crabbed, dyspeptic, fractious, hot-tempered, huffy,
ill-humored, ill-natured, irritable, peevish, petulant, querulous,
rusty, shrewish, snappish, sour, surly, vixenish, waspish
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