ill-temper

Personally I quite like these games: away matches in Europe are always interesting, Bursaspor are a treat that has yet to lose its novelty - check out the tricky Servan Yıldırım – and it does all make a change from the hustle and yelping and incestuous ill-temper of the Premier League.

Bursaspor v Manchester United - as it happened Barney Ronay 2010

As the days went by and they grew weaker, their peevishness and ill-temper increased, which, in turn, increased the ill-treatment and sufferings of O'Brien.

THE "FRANCIS SPAIGHT" 2010

He was all over me again, excusing his ill-temper at the White House as mere frenzy of disappointment; I was the truest of friends, rallying to his side when all others had forsaken him, I was a tower of strength and comfort-what, I would come west with him, even?

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

A flash of ill-temper when he was a teenager saw him ditched by Arsenal but there is now a fair prospect, 10 years on from the expulsion, that he will win his first England cap at some stage in the friendly with France .

Cardiff's Jay Bothroyd takes the long road from Arsenal to England Kevin McCarra 2010

The people I meet today are ready to discuss their difference without ill-temper; even men who fought against each other twelve years ago can exchange memories without hate.

Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000

Instead of being insistent yet tempered, his insistence comes across as ill-temper.

Obama Responds To McCain: "Strong" Presidents Aren't Afraid To Meet With Enemies 2009

My grandfather was a terror; his ill-temper had the shortest of fuses.

This Family of Mine VICTORIA GOTTI 2009

The merchant returned his salute, but in ill-temper, and the other, seeing him vexed, said, “O my lord, what hath crossed thee?”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Back in 1976 David Steel, a tough political knife-fighter, knew that his opponent, John Pardoe, was easily riled and that his ill-temper could end any chance he had.

John Pardoe's Missing Bald Patch 2006

But there was another mood in him, more vital and more enduring, if not so engaging, a mood in which he saw himself as one betrayed and sacrificed and abandoned, and then he attributed his ruin wholly to his friend and did not hesitate to speak of him as the “Judas” whose shallow selfishness and imperious ill-temper and unfulfilled promises of monetary help had driven a great man to disaster.

Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions 2007