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SHORT-TEMPERED definition | Cambridge English Dictionary
The pressure is sapping his drive, he's short-tempered and overwhelmed, and he mentioned last week that his new girlfriend has just about had it with all the long hours.
The tugs converse by yells and whistles, it is an affair of short-tempered mechanical monsters, amidst which one watches for one's opportunity to get ashore.
He was often a silent, short-tempered fellow, with a very keen eye for half-crowns, and no information to speak of as to the country which passed daily under his eyes.
Plenty of other anecdotes tell of short-tempered nobles who lost self-control when checkmated, broke the chessboards over their opponents' heads, and ended the contest in a regular brawl.
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