Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having a violent temper.
Wiktionary
- adj. colloquial (usually said of a person, but sometimes of an animal) Become very vocal or even violent when angered or frustrated.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. quickly aroused to anger
Examples
“Spoiled and hot-tempered, and two years older than I, she had known how to scare me into doing what she wanted.”
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“During Monday Oct. 24 night's "DWTS," hot-tempered Maks had a serious fallout with judge Len Goodman.”
“A hot-tempered celebrity who had dated Zetrakis and was fired from his show some years ago, Joey has inherited a million-dollar Klimt from him.”
“But observers say Kim Kyong Hui, reportedly stubborn and hot-tempered, pursued her boyfriend and eventually married him.”
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“My dad and I are both hot-tempered and passionate about what we believe.”
“Wyatt Earp and the patriarch of the Clantons were forever patching together surreptitious deals to keep their hot-tempered relatives in line.”
“Holliday was a strange man: a Southern gentleman of elaborate courtesy, a hot-tempered brawling drunk, a fiercely loyal friend, a skilled professional gambler and hustler, a trained dental surgeon thus his nickname, a longtime sufferer of tuberculosis, and a coldly murderous gunfighter.”
“There is the indisputable fact that a hot-tempered black man, expressing true anger over the injustices in this society would scare the hell out of many voters and would have been unelectable.”
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“In the movie, gorgeous rising star actress Manie Malone plays Nora, the feisty hot-tempered girlfriend of a big shot Congolese drug dealer.”
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“He could be as serene as a Buddhist priest, and hot-tempered enough to scream and swear at colleagues when he was frustrated, but will those contradictory aspects of his personality be remembered more than his remarkable contributions to our world?”
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