Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Easily or quickly moved to anger; irascible.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a hasty temper; easily put out of temper.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a person who is easily
angered , who is known to frequently lose his or hertemper .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective quickly aroused to anger
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Examples
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The film then turns its attention to the Willingham case: of a perpetual ne'er-do-well, the father of a 3-year-old daughter and infant twins who was known as a short-tempered troublemaker.
Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Incendiary: The Willingham Case Marshall Fine 2011
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The film then turns its attention to the Willingham case: of a perpetual ne'er-do-well, the father of a 3-year-old daughter and infant twins who was known as a short-tempered troublemaker.
Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Incendiary: The Willingham Case Marshall Fine 2011
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The people who worked for me would tell me I was getting irritable and short-tempered, which is not my nature, but it was part of how the pain manifested.
Black Pain Terrie M. Williams 2008
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The people who worked for me would tell me I was getting irritable and short-tempered, which is not my nature, but it was part of how the pain manifested.
Black Pain Terrie M. Williams 2008
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The people who worked for me would tell me I was getting irritable and short-tempered, which is not my nature, but it was part of how the pain manifested.
Black Pain Terrie M. Williams 2008
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The people who worked for me would tell me I was getting irritable and short-tempered, which is not my nature, but it was part of how the pain manifested.
Black Pain Terrie M. Williams 2008
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Our most famous Ralph remains a fictional, short-tempered Brooklyn bus driver who continually threatened to send his wife Alice to the moon.
He's Come Undone Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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Clark was a lanky general other men found to be short-tempered, aloof, and a publicity hound.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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Command at Fort Cumberland deteriorated into ceaseless squabbling between the short-tempered Stephen and the stuffy Dagworthy.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Granted, he can be a tad, shall we say, short-tempered.
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