Definition of "sweet-tempered" [sweet-tempered]

• Having a gentle or pleasant temper.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Mistress Gwyn Ellen is a sweet-tempered, biddable girl and learns quickly but is a constant surprise to us."
• "Teddy is delicately featured, sweet-tempered, and very fond of Theo."
• "That seems to be beyond the imagination and capabilities of the sweet-tempered, passive, over-educated, please-play-nice Obama staff whose Democratic-controlled congress has just stripped $12bn from a long-term food stamps program precisely at the time when more Americans than ever hunger, literally, for such assistance."