ILL-TEMPERED

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Of bad temper; morose; crabbed; sour; peevish; fretful; quarrelsome.

2.
a.

Unhealthy; ill-conditioned. [Obs.] So ill-tempered I am grown, that I am afraid I shall catch cold, while all the world is afraid to melt away. Pepys.

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