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Webster 1913 Edition
Ill-tempered
Illˊ-tem′pered
,Adj.
1.
Of bad temper; grouchy; morose; crabbed; sour; peevish; fretful; quarrelsome.
Syn. – crabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, fussbudgety, grouchy, grumpy, bad-tempered.
2.
Unhealthy; ill-conditioned.
[Obs.]
So
ill-tempered
I am grown, that I am afraid I shall catch cold, while all the world is afraid to melt away. Pepys.