All 3 Uses of
tempered
in
Summer Pleasures, by Nora Roberts
- All they wanted was a plug of tobacco, a bad-tempered horse and a handful of sky.†
Chpt 2.8bad-tempered = tending to get angry or annoyed easily
- Snuggled back in her seat with champagne swimming in her head and thunder grumbling in a bad-tempered sky, she was content to ride along wherever he chose to go.†
Chpt 2.10
- Bryan walked on, down streets packed with bad-tempered traffic, over sidewalks that tossed up heat like insults.†
Chpt 2.12 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(tempered as in: bad news tempered by kindness) made less extreme
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(2)
(tempered as in: tempered steel) made stronger or more flexible by heat treatment -- often of steel or glass
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(3)
(tempered as in: short-tempered) having a typical mood or temperament -- often in reference to how easily one is angered