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having a typical mood or temperament — often in reference to how easily one is angered
- It took them two hours to reach the monkey house, contending the whole way with ill-tempered commuters.p. 289.5
- He was a calm, even-tempered man with a kind of dreamy nature; a man given to staring out the window of his office, thinking about one thing or another.p. 159.9
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