(1) He was bad-tempered and graceless in defeat.

(2) It is his illness that makes him bad-tempered.

(3) I'm afraid I was rather bad-tempered yesterday; I think I owe you an apology.

(4) Why are you so bad-tempered today?

(5) She's very bad-tempered in the mornings!

(6) Like many creative individuals, she can be very bad-tempered.

(7) He can be really bad-tempered at times.

(8) She gets very bad-tempered when she's tired.

(9) It's unusual for Donald to be so bad-tempered.

(10) He seems bad-tempered but he's very soft-hearted underneath.

(11) Our neighbour's a bad-tempered old so-and-so.

(12) He's not that wonderful. He's bad-tempered for one thing.

(13) He acknowledges that when he's tired he gets bad-tempered.

(14) He sat in bad-tempered silence.

(15) When his headaches developed Nick became bad-tempered and even violent.

(16) Why are you so bad-tempered? You didn't use to be like this.

(17) Ron gave her a bad-tempered look.

(18) I'm sorry I've been so bad-tempered lately. Anyway, thank you for being so understanding.

(19) A thin, bad-tempered breeze blew sand into our faces and whipped up under my skirt.

(20) He was known to be a bad-tempered recluse, avoided by everyone in the area.

(21) She would always be bad-tempered, liable to peck out an eye or lash out dangerously with those sharp claws.

(22) He was a man of undoubted genius, but bad-tempered, egocentric, and impossible to live with.

(23) I don't know what's got into him recently; he's become very bad-tempered.

(24) My father, who had always been very self-controlled, became bad-tempered.

(25) The rough clientele of the pub, understanding nothing except that a formerly bad-tempered dispute was being amicably resolved, cheered noisily.

(26) The arrival of the census form routinely sparks a bad-tempered debate about intrusiveness and unreasonable authority.

(27) It had no effect whatsoever, except to leave her feeling battered and thoroughly bad-tempered.

(28) Every time he asked her a question she snarled a bad-tempered answer.

(29) She wore a black swimsuit, a huge straw hat with the brim pinned back and a bad-tempered scowl.

(30) He says that the two Professors have become engaged in an increasingly bad-tempered debate on the nature of light.

(1) He was bad-tempered and graceless in defeat.

(2) It is his illness that makes him bad-tempered.

(3) I'm afraid I was rather bad-tempered yesterday; I think I owe you an apology.

(31) But the animal was bad-tempered, and one night Eugene opened the cage and let him shamble away.

(32) Her father was a bad-tempered man who sat alone drinking beer and watching TV most nights.

(33) Old Mr Grimes was a bad-tempered recluse, rarely seen in the town.

(34) Pamela surveyed him from under her sunshade as he rubbed the lotion lovingly into the bad-tempered girl's back.

(35) He was as cranky as a bad-tempered goat[], always putting his head down and charging into things that annoyed him.

(36) He's usually the most charming of men to work for, but just lately ... talk about bad-tempered.

(37) In fact, she was a very selfish, disagreeable, bad-tempered little girl.

(38) He can be rude and bad-tempered sometimes, but his heart's in the right place.

(39) Waved back by a Kalashnikov-wielding, spotty boy-soldier, I was subject to a ten-minute harangue by two bad-tempered border guards.

(40) As Aunt Matilde's pain grew worse, she became too bad-tempered to see anyone.

(41) Meredith had only time to see that she was expensively dressed, sharp-featured and bad-tempered in looks.

(42) Combat Bonus A charging war boar is a bad-tempered mound of bloody-minded muscle and bone with pointy tusks and sharp teeth.

(43) For the first couple of years, I was angry, permanently bad-tempered, and sexually frustrated.

(44) They walked in bad-tempered silence.

(45) Rather than being tired, bad-tempered under-achievers, they are an energetic, outgoing and optimistic group who can happily and healthily get by on just four or five hours of shut-eye a night.

(46) Sometimes dad was nice to us, but sometimes he was bad-tempered and nervy.

(47) There were no mutual concessions; one stood erect, and the others yielded: and who can be ill-natured and bad-tempered when they encounter neither opposition nor indifference?

(48) Long long ago, there was a bad-tempered King. He loved the moon very much.

(49) He's a strange chap. Usually he's very pleasant and reasonable, but there are times when he gets very bad-tempered and almost violent. He's got a Jekyll and Hyde personality.

(50) Such problems are usually described in terms like: "Alex is just lazy" or "Brenda is a bad-tempered old has-been".

(51) a disagreeable bad-tempered man.