ill-tempered

The incident was one of many in an ill-tempered match during which Real player Pepe and coach Jose Mourinho were sent off.

Such a focus would have been hard to imagine during the ill-tempered fiscal battle between Mr Cantor and Mr Obama earlier this year.

to be that of growling, ill-tempered lawyer Ling Woo, which Liu filled with such aplomb that she was signed on as a regular cast member.

On the tenth floor there were only some ill-tempered old men and ugly women who always seemed to be enraged about something or other.

I picked up this bad habit when growing up in Santiago, Chile, where drivers are ill-tempered and routinely curse each other.

The months leading up to the Games, though, showed China at its clumsy, ill-tempered , and repressive worst.

To be constantly living with an ill-tempered person, must be dreadful.

He tends to be ill - tempered day by day .

So far this has proved an ill-tempered match, with constant bickering between the partners.

They were ill-tempered about what was, to them, much ado about nothing.

Some think him ill-tempered and queer But a few think him pleasant enough.

The ill-tempered struggle in Washington over raising the federal debt limit is enough to make anyone gloomy about the future of the US.

I should take him, even on my slight acquaintance, to be an ill-tempered man.

Government newspapers mounted an ill-tempered slander campaign against Mr ElBaradei, but his largely youthful following only grew.

He passed for an Englishman, was agreeable, handsome, ill-tempered, hospitable and witty.

A vigorous and often ill-tempered debate has opened over the consequences of this movement of people.

The two formed an ill- tempered pair that would tease the other children who dared to dream of a better life.

The buffet - waiter, Foka, was the most ill-tempered person in the house. Natasha liked to try her power over him.

I remember him well. Thing-skinned. Ill-tempered. Smokes too much. Disagreeable smell. Why do i need hum?

She stood at a podium as prime minister-elect, amid a sea of jostling and ill-tempered photographers.

Ill - tempered and quarrelsome; disagreeable.

After two months, the screws were about three feet long and extremely ill-tempered .

Aggressive, ill-tempered and ill-mannered young person; lout.

The teacher is so ill - tempered that nobody dare to raise a query in his class.

i tried threatening him , but he only got more ill - tempered.

We're mean and ill-tempered. - Really? Well, not around Bradley, I'm not.

Distorted by the hot breath of earth, the moon seemed somewhat ill-tempered and imperfect.

Back home I was ill-tempered as well.

Distorted thus by the hot breath of earth, the moon seemed ill-tempered and imperfect.

They enjoy their fun but are generally not ill-tempered.

"I don't understand why we are so ill-tempered , " said Voller.

and it was impossible, however ill-tempered they might be, that the universal scowl they wore was their every-day countenance.

Are you ill-tempered in life?

My brother is ill-tempered, and always stirs up trouble.

When she had to spin she was so ill tempered that if there was a little knot in the flax,

an ill-tempered man = a man whose temper is ill