Bad-tempered
Bad-tempered adjective - Annoyed and irritable.
Nasty is a synonym for bad-tempered in attitude topic. In some cases you can use "Nasty" instead an adjective phrase "Bad-tempered", when it comes to topics like character trait.
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- mean and bad-tempered
- mean and nasty
- critical and bad-tempered
- critical and nasty
- rude and bad-tempered
- rude and nasty
- unpleasant and bad-tempered
- unpleasant and nasty
- disagreeable and bad-tempered
- disagreeable and nasty
- sarcastic and bad-tempered
- sarcastic and nasty
- vicious and bad-tempered
- vicious and nasty
Both words in one sentence
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Subverted in the Stanley Baxter's Playhouse episode "The King's Kilt", when Miss MacEvoy, descendent of the kindly landlady from Walter Scott's The Chronicles of Canongate, turns out to be a nasty, bad-tempered woman, who is insanely suspicious of the guests at her B&B.
Source: Generation Xerox - Every winter he becomes dark, bad-tempered, and fond of caving in heads with hammers, and is the incarnation of a rather nasty god—although not evil in the strictest of senses, being still relatively friendly to the heroes.
Source: Punch Clock Villain / Literature
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