ill-tempered a. 脾气暴躁的
ill-tempered[ adj ]
annoyed and irritable
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Ill-tempered \Ill`-tem"pered\, a.
1. Of bad temper; grouchy; morose; crabbed; sour; peevish;
fretful; quarrelsome.
Syn: crabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, fussbudgety, grouchy,
grumpy, bad-tempered.
2. Unhealthy; ill-conditioned. [Obs.]
So ill-tempered I am grown, that I am afraid I shall
catch cold, while all the world is afraid to melt
away. --Pepys.
- On the environment, for instance, the Belgian presidency will have to arbitrate in the increasingly ill-tempered row over German waste exports for recycling, partly by pushing hard to get the stalled EC directive on packaging waste through.
- Gower's flight over Queensland's Carrarra Ground, in a 1938 Tiger-Moth, on England's ill-fated, ill-tempered tour of Australia in the winter of 1990-91, brought him grim disapproval from Gooch and the tour's officials.