| You are a bad-tempered, petulant and irritable man lacking in your professional duties to your patients. |
| Yesterday's bad-tempered exchange threatened to overshadow what should have been a constructive insight into the state of broadband in Britain. |
| If the closing minutes were meaty and bad-tempered, the opening exchanges had been more pleasant if no less intense. |
| At the world championships in Budapest in 1997 Chagaev, who was then 19, beat Savon in a bad-tempered and controversial heavyweight final. |
| 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. |
| He was a rotund, florid, bad-tempered, red-haired man who would shout orders. |