I am appalling in the morning, really foul-tempered and grouchy
a foul-tempered, evil megalomaniac
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It was almost ten at night when he returned to his flat exhausted and still foul-tempered.
He said: "The material was so tight that within 20 minutes, I was the most foul-tempered person."
The wife (assuming they're married) is a terrified, shrieking thing, no doubt from having to live with such a foul-tempered man.
I was reading an article last week on how this hormone turns 'angelic children into foul-tempered teenagers.'
A foul-tempered doctor arrived and stopped just short of accusing me of smuggling the Black Death into the USA.
"I was as sullen and foul-tempered with my parents as I was cowardly and groveling at school," he says.
Unaware that the lab has run amok, the professor injects a particularly foul-tempered rat with a super dose of the serum.
I got to the office ten minutes late, sweating like a horse and foul-tempered - a mood worsened further by the knowledge that this week's journeys would cost me about two-and-a-half times as much in petrol as my £14.80 weekly rail pass.
Both are equally foul-tempered, vindictive and plain bad.
You are left exhausted, exasperated, foul-tempered, and ready to start throwing things yourself.