Definition of "short-tempered" []

• Easily or quickly moved to anger; irascible. (adjective)

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• "The film then turns its attention to the Willingham case: of a perpetual ne'er-do-well, the father of a 3-year-old daughter and infant twins who was known as a short-tempered troublemaker."
• "The people who worked for me would tell me I was getting irritable and short-tempered, which is not my nature, but it was part of how the pain manifested."
• "Granted, he can be a tad, shall we say, short-tempered."