bad-tempered

It soon became apparent why, in what turned out to be one of the most personal and bad-tempered debates in the US during this campaign, at times reaching levels of child-like tantrums unlikely to be witnessed much outside a school playground.

Midterm elections live blog - Monday 18 October Richard Adams 2010

The call to reopen the treaty will run into strong resistance, with European leaders exhausted by the bad-tempered nine years it took to finalise the Lisbon pact which came into force last year.

France and Germany hijack strict new eurozone budget regime Ian Traynor in Brussels 2010

I've also a bad-tempered PI who prefers shooting people to dealing with them, and never says anything nice when she can say something snarky. 


Writing Question: Unlikable Protagonists odysseyworkshop 2009

After all, they are dirty and smelly, bad-tempered and rude.

Meet Wild Boars by Meg Rosoff: Book summary 2010

But if Mr. Trichet got encouragement on the Greek front at the summit, he will have been dismayed at the bad-tempered standoff between the new Irish government and its creditors.

EU States Duck Financing Challenge Geoffrey T. Smith 2011

I doubt if Kate will exhibit the kind of behavior seen on some reality TV shows about bad-tempered brides.

Judith J. Wurtman, PhD: Will The Dukan Diet Turn Kate Into A Bridezilla? PhD Judith J. Wurtman 2011

I doubt if Kate will exhibit the kind of behavior seen on some reality TV shows about bad-tempered brides.

Judith J. Wurtman, PhD: Will The Dukan Diet Turn Kate Into A Bridezilla? PhD Judith J. Wurtman 2011

NEW YORK Michael J. Fox says the timing was perfect when Denis Leary asked him last year to star in a five-episode arc of Rescue Me as a bad-tempered, drug-abusing paraplegic.

Denis Leary revives 'Rescue Me' with friend Michael J. Fox 2009

Rosenthal – creator of TV series London's Burning and co-author, with Barbra Streisand, of the film Yentl – includes among his dramatis personae a bonkers lyricist, an arrogant director, a bad-tempered composer and a bombastic producer.

This week's new theatre 2011

Walter – I never said that Leavis was bad-tempered in his writing.

The Grumpy Critic « Tales from the Reading Room 2009