Bad-tempered
Bad-tempered adjective - Annoyed and irritable.
Sharp-tongued and bad-tempered are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sharp-tongued" instead an adjective phrase "Bad-tempered".
Sharp-tongued
Bad-tempered and sharp-tongued are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Bad-tempered" instead an adjective phrase "Sharp-tongued".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- mean and bad-tempered
- mean and sharp-tongued
- critical and bad-tempered
- critical and sharp-tongued
- sour and bad-tempered
- sour and sharp-tongued
- rude and bad-tempered
- rude and sharp-tongued
- gruff and bad-tempered
- gruff and sharp-tongued
- irritable and bad-tempered
- irritable and sharp-tongued
- ill-tempered and bad-tempered
- ill-tempered and sharp-tongued
Both words in one sentence
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Katherine, the titular shrew in William Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew (and Kat in its update, 10 Things I Hate About You) is sharp-tongued, bad-tempered, and bitchy to pretty much everyone, until she is tamed by Petruchio (and his counterpart, Patrick Verona).
Source: Does Not Like Men
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