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• s  quickly aroused to anger

• Their natures, too, are similar: both are impatient, often short-tempered and, say their critics, sometimes authoritarian.
• Many of the students are troubled, and short-tempered Gauld treats them like a drill instructor faced with a platoon of left-footed recruits.
• In other words, his short-tempered everyman has been dragged snarling and fretful into the computer age, and there's some fun to be had from him.

• choleric
• irascible
• hotheaded
• hot-tempered
• quick-tempered

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• Jerome Groopman: Alzheimer’s researchers seek a new approach.
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  June 17, 2013 - The New Yorker
• 99 Words About ... The Overpopulation Of 'True Blood'
  It's getting pretty crowded in Bon Temps. "True Blood" (9 p.m. Sunday, HBO) began as the story of a mind-reading waitress, her dim-bulb brother, short-tempered friend, kind-hearted boss and the dreamy new vampire in town. Now, there's all manner of vampires,
  June 13, 2013 - Las Vegas Review-Journal