The phrase "a violent temper" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who frequently becomes very angry or aggressive.
Example: "After years of dealing with his violent temper, his friends decided it was best to distance themselves from him."
Alternatives: "a fierce temper" or "a bad temper."
"Apparently, she had a violent temper.
Powder has a violent temper.
But Dan was domineering and had a violent temper.
He was serious and sober but had a violent temper.
Oldham-born Elson, 34, reportedly said in the filing that White has a violent temper.
He also developed a violent temper and had fights with his cousins.
Accused of murdering a local bartender who he claims raped and beat up his wife Laura Leee Remick, Stewartt soon finds out that Laura has a reputation for promiscuity and Lt. Manion a notoriously violent temper.
Even Werner, the scholar who turned detective, comes over as an obsessive (as well he might do with a murdered daughter), a man of violent temper who had broken a young Chinese man's nose for daring to talk to Pamela.
His mother is dying, and his father, an out-of-work firefighter, indulges an increasingly drunken and violent temper.
Alfred White, the park keeper, has patrolled his patch of Eden for an epic half-century, guarding against stray footballs and untoward goings-on in the gents'; a man as anachronistic as his job title, he loves his bookish wife, May, with a mute devotion, but has driven away two of their children and stunted a third with his violent temper and knee-jerk bigotry.
Emphasising the gap between appearance and reality, surface and depths, Heathcote skilfully ramps up the dramatic tension: Tom is a man "trained to conceal his true feelings, to put on a veneer", but his violent temper must sometimes storm to the surface.
