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having a typical mood or temperament — often in reference to how easily one is angered
- There was the cook now, Mildred, Marian, some such name as that—a red— headed woman, quick-tempered like all her sort, but kind, too, if you knew the way with her.2 — Time Passes (84% in)
- Instantly, with the force of some primeval gust (for really he could not restrain himself any longer), there issued from him such a groan that any other woman in the whole world would have done something, said something—all except myself, thought Lily, girding at herself bitterly, who am not a woman, but a peevish, ill-tempered, dried-up old maid, presumably.3 — The Lighthouse (10% in)
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