(1) There were some ill-tempered exchanges during the committee meeting.

(2) He was a choleric, ill-tempered man.

(3) Six players were sent off in an ill-tempered game.

(4) An increasingly ill-tempered match saw three players sent off before half-time.

(5) It was a day of tense and often ill-tempered debate.

(6) Wexford's reply was an ill-tempered snort.

(7) So must it be an inconclusive, ill-tempered parting between the friends?

(8) In an ill-tempered game Grimandi struck Simeone after having his shirt pulled.

(9) She would not cry over such an overbearing[http://], ill-tempered brute.

(10) In the morning Bicker was ill-tempered when he was told of the latest addition to the company, but Ratagan was pleased.

(11) Feeling thoroughly ill-tempered gave one energy, she thought, as she started on the dust and cobwebs in the salon.

(12) She was a big ill-tempered animal cowed by a presence more threatening and a temper more volatile than her own.

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

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

(15) He tends to be ill-tempered day by day.

(16) He sounded like an ill-tempered child.

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

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

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

(20) 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.

(21) He felt very uneasy about entering this dark building with an ill-tempered stranger.

(22) Jackson teed off on the selection committee in an ill-tempered article.

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

(24) He treat us very benevolent though sometimes he got ill-tempered.

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

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

(27) The crowd was more restrained during Wednesday's match but aimed abuse and plastic bottles at their own team after they lost the ill-tempered game.

(28) Before the accident, he was hard-working and good-natured, but he became ill-tempered and generally disliked.

(29) In the game, the old nice, clean character can be ill-tempered and cunning as he traverses a forbidding wasteland.

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