| That is they tend to be aggressive, narrow-minded, egocentric, irritable, ignorant, and bad-tempered. |
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| Li, a white-collar worker, found herself bad-tempered, depressed and irritated with others. |
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| You are a bad-tempered, petulant and irritable man lacking in your professional duties to your patients. |
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| She has a voluble and attractive personality, but even if she were cranky and bad-tempered I'd still go there because the food's really good. |
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| Whenever Billy comes visiting, she becomes bad-tempered and angry, leaving Sarah bewildered and Annie even more upset. |
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| If the closing minutes were meaty and bad-tempered, the opening exchanges had been more pleasant if no less intense. |
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| At the world championships in Budapest in 1997 Chagaev, who was then 19, beat Savon in a bad-tempered and controversial heavyweight final. |
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| Yesterday's bad-tempered exchange threatened to overshadow what should have been a constructive insight into the state of broadband in Britain. |
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| City of York completed a superb double over a rapidly-improving Rotherham side with a 5-2 victory in a bad-tempered game. |
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| It was a bad-tempered match with fights breaking out sporadically amidst the rugby. |
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| He was a rotund, florid, bad-tempered, red-haired man who would shout orders. |
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| The citizens were palpably bad-tempered, caught up in the festive frenzy of acquisition. |
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| The last ten minutes was a scrappy, even bad-tempered, affair, which offered little in the way of pretty football. |
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| Should the bad-tempered remark: 'No music disposal along the lines of my poetry' date from this epoch? |
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| I have never heard of them being bad-tempered, even in old age, which I think constitutes something of a record. |
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| What prompted the Weekly Standard to publish his collection of bad-tempered, ignorant, off-the-mark comments about him and about contemporary literature is a greater mystery. |
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| The proposed intention will create bad-tempered, frustrated, angry drivers, who will be forced to take risks they otherwise would never dream of doing. |
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| Here we're introduced to some of the civic and military leaders of the ape pack, led by Thade, an ornery, scowling, bad-tempered ape if there ever was one. |
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| Lack of testosterone leaves men bad-tempered, emotional, depressed and suffering from Irritable Male Syndrome, scientist Gerald Lincoln told BBC radio's recently. |
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| It was that kind of match, always tetchy, often bad-tempered. |
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| The subsequent round-table sequence of statements from prime ministers at the end of a bad-tempered evening did more harm than good, he told officials. |
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| In what was a physical, bad-tempered affair, scenes that could be associated with a Saturday night brawl in Dodge City erupted midway in the second half. |
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| This attempt at self-denial lasted approximately one minute, after which I gave up and found myself agreeing with all the bad-tempered, curmudgeonly opinions being aired. |
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| Is there a thinking man or woman alive in Europe who is not depressed by the prospect of spending yet more years of bad-tempered debate on such mind-numbing details? |
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| The result was therefore foul-mouthed and bad-tempered in proportion to the force it took to get through my wall of shyness. |
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| She's the one who gives you all your ideas and inspiration, but she's a right bad-tempered cow. |
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| If he doesn't eat, his sugar is low, then he tends to get very argumentative, moody and bad-tempered. |
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| Now, before you begin forming the impression that my beloved is a bad-tempered miser, I must put you straight. |
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| Everyone is burnished and slightly bad-tempered. |
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| The proviso makes clear that this offence is primarily concerned with the nature of the act itself and what that act reveals about the person, vicious being defined as bad-tempered, spiteful and violent. |
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| Tait was snapping like a bad-tempered dog. |
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| Hambling's dog Max was just as bad-tempered. |
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| Top-flight newcomers Brasenose came down to earth with a bump, losing 32-8 to a well-drilled Keble side who dominated a bad-tempered game in the University Parks this Tuesday. |
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| Several bad-tempered summits later, she got it. |
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| Lazio and Cagliari also provided two dismissals apiece, although in contrast to the bad-tempered match in Parma, all four were for second yellow cards. |
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| All the customers were different, and as he was a new waiter, he didn't know how to tell the difference between a good-tempered and a bad-tempered one. |
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| It wasn't a game for cowards, as some bone-crunching hits, and a mass brawl in a bad-tempered first-half, left their mark physically on both sets of players. |
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| And still, the bad-tempered second half did not yield a goal. |
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| His blond hair was buzzed close to his scalp, and his complexion was reddened slightly from the sun, giving his head the look of a bad-tempered peach. |
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| Ragou, the bad-tempered mouse who belongs to the fairy Fée Licité, is all excited: an official letter from the Professional Order of Fairies has just arrived for his mistress. |
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| One morning, the camels arrive, swaggering up the valley, snorting in bad-tempered disgust and spitting regurgitated grass at their Kirghiz masters. |
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| She makes friends with Rangi a day girl who works for a bad-tempered storekeeper in Kororareka. |
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| A violent man is: macho, tattooed, egotistical, strong and muscled, imposing, an alcoholic, a brawler, bad-tempered and impulsive, a crook, a criminal, always aggressive and violent. |
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| Selina kept pushing and shoving during musical chairs. The nursery school teacher said she was a bad-tempered little madam. |
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| David Niven had surgery for a broken jaw and was found to have teeth missing after a bad-tempered clash with Arbroath. |
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