| Whenever Billy comes visiting, she becomes bad-tempered and angry, leaving Sarah bewildered and Annie even more upset. |
| Should the bad-tempered remark: 'No music disposal along the lines of my poetry' date from this epoch? |
| You are a bad-tempered, petulant and irritable man lacking in your professional duties to your patients. |
| If the closing minutes were meaty and bad-tempered, the opening exchanges had been more pleasant if no less intense. |
| He was a rotund, florid, bad-tempered, red-haired man who would shout orders. |
| It was a bad-tempered match with fights breaking out sporadically amidst the rugby. |
