Ill Temper (Noun)
Meaning
A persisting angry mood.
Classification
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions.
Examples
- His years of struggles and setbacks seemed to have fixed an ill temper in his demeanor, causing many people to keep their distance.
- After her nasty break-up, Rachel struggled to control her ill temper, lashing out at even the most well-intentioned comments from her friends.
- Over the past year, we have all seen how David's work pressure turned his charming personality into a perpetually angry man, engulfed in ill temper.
- Kitty knew her new co-worker well enough to anticipate the caustic words spewing out from him every time his morning coffee was late, another outburst fueled by his well-known ill temper.
- Those flashes of ill temper he'd often exhibited as a young artist surprised us all, once he'd become famous and wealthy, now his more reflective side seemed to have largely taken over.