adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He tends to be very short-tempered when he's hungry.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Did they guess why she was so short-tempered of late?
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During those months I became anxious, short-tempered and critical.
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He is too short-tempered , for one thing, and also capable of doubt, anxiety, weariness, fear.
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His father was growing short-tempered as one interview after another proved to be fixed in some one else's favour.
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She found she was short-tempered with shop assistants, angry if something she had ordered failed to arrive on the appointed date.
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When John was so short-tempered , it hardly seemed possible to conduct a civilised conversation.
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You become tense, short-tempered and irritable with other people.