quick-tempered


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Related to quick-tempered: angriness, stubborn, wrathfully
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Synonyms for quick-tempered

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Synonyms for quick-tempered

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Synonyms for quick-tempered

quickly aroused to anger

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That feeling creeps through every relationship we have with other people, and we turn quick-tempered, disrespectful, easily annoyed, pessimistic, selfish and/or oblivious to the world.
He frequently gets caught up in Larry's mishaps, while also having to deal with his quick-tempered, foul-mouthed wife Susie.
Giving evidence in the Brisbane Magistrates Court today, Shirley Singh said her husband Vijay was a quick-tempered man who used his fists when he was angry.
Margaret Gregg, a former colleague of Shelton, who had also become friends with Mrs Martin, said Shelton was quick-tempered, impatient and easily upset.
22 ...And who played quick-tempered traffic warden Mrs Cantaford in the series?
Meanwhile, feisty, quick-tempered Shui-lian flees from her family and the marriage that they are trying to enforce upon her.
She leaves behind a hellish human zoo of quick-tempered, self-obsessed airheads.
Each week the quick-tempered chef tries to turn around the fortunes of struggling restaurants.
She easily moves from the quick-tempered, fast-talking Eve to her pragmatic no-nonsense sidekick Peabody to the slightly brogued Roarke.
Beshar was always rather strange - virtually uneducable, quick-tempered and given to petty cruelties against animals and weaker playmates.
(Flash back to high school: Do you remember some quick-tempered teachers you wouldn't want to have been armed?)