ill-tempered
- s annoyed and irritable
- In a TV debate on election eve, O'Malley went on as the final speaker after two hours of shrill argument and ill-tempered accusations, and once again he threw his change-up.
- Furthermore, he found the Archbishop's whole statement "ill-tempered.
- Would anyone want to pick a fight with Ickes, the famously ill-tempered bad boy of the Democratic Party who once bit a rival political operative on the leg?.