All 4 Uses of
tempered
in
Arrowsmith
- I was just— Scrubbing makes me bad-tempered.†
Chpt 6 *
- He beamed on his loving students and cried: "Gentlemen, the trouble with too many doctors, even those splendid old pioneer war-horses who through mud and storm, through winter's chill blast and August's untempered heat, go bringing cheer and surcease from pain to the world's humblest, yet even these old Nestors not so infrequently settle down in a rut and never shake themselves loose.†
Chpt 8
- To his fellow prospectors he was known as "Slim," the worst-tempered and most restless of all their company.†
Chpt 9 *
- The seedy Pickerbaugh domain was enchanted; the tangled grass was a garden of roses, the ragged grape-arbor a shrine to Diana, the old hammock turned to fringed cloth of silver, the bad-tempered and sputtering lawn-sprinkler a fountain, and over all the world was the proper witchery of moonstruck love.†
Chpt 21
Definitions:
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(tempered as in: short-tempered) having a typical mood or temperament -- often in reference to how easily one is angered
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(tempered as in: bad news tempered by kindness) made less extreme