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How to use short-tempered in a sentence

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As his health had improved he'd become steadily more irritable and short-tempered.
Sure, he was often short-tempered and angry, but this time it was something different.
I had to admit that I was starting to love that smirk but I was growing short-tempered and impatient.
They are short-tempered, resent authority, and have difficulty dealing with criticism.
Many drivers said they became irritable or short-tempered during the winter.
Having to sit on stage in sweltering heat all day taking the brunt of increasingly short-tempered attendees is not going to be much fun.
I was mean-spirited, short-tempered, intolerant of those who disagreed with me.
She was blunt, short-tempered, arrogant, independent, out-spoken, and stubborn as a mule.
Extroverts may become withdrawn, natural jokers humourless, and placid individuals short-tempered and aggressive.
The story of the uncompromising short-tempered legendary director is one of rags to riches.
She had to be careful how she worded the question, for fear of upsetting or angering the short-tempered man.
Although talented, he was always a difficult colleague, proud, tactless, short-tempered, and easily offended.
Before I was short-tempered and abrasive, but now I have learned the art of becoming more magnanimous.
As a species, we're too territorial, short-tempered and vengeful for traffic to flow.
I was short-tempered and I was cracking up a bit under the pressure of it all.
He's not eating properly and vomits bile, he has a constant body itch and is very short-tempered.
Schweitzer was no soft-headed do-gooder but a strong-minded, short-tempered, workaholic autocrat, who slept only four hours a night and whom people hesitated to cross.
The first master brewer was a recognized specialist in the trade: Josef Groll from Vilshofen in Bavaria. He was 29 years old at the time, and had a reputation for being very short-tempered.
He was an accomplished bushman, a great drinker and swearer, short-tempered and generous-hearted, a man not to be contained by parliamentary etiquette.
You may feel irritable, hungry, tired, or more short-tempered than usual.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The wind, it seemed, too, was expressing a little of the afternoon's short-tempered.
He was a short-tempered man of no great manners, and he only grunted his response.
All of them are short-tempered, and the bars of their captivity not too strong.
She appeared twice on I'm A Celebrity without winning so taking short prices about short-tempered Price is not a wise move.
Nearby are two bags containing millions of dollars pilfered from short-tempered mobster Frank.
In the morning they will often be sullen and short-tempered.
I'll get blamed if you go, and he's short-tempered this morning.
The examiner too could be impulsive, was indeed apt to be short-tempered.
He was ever a short-tempered man, intolerant of irrelevancies.
He is always short-tempered He is always short-tempered and doesn't seem to treat me with and doesn't seem to treat me with love any more.
She finds herself in a magical world inhabited by all manner of bizarre creatures and dominated by a short-tempered queen fond of beheading those who displease her.
They can be short-tempered and abrupt, and make underhanded critical remarks.
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