Sentence examples similar to bad-tempered voice from inspiring English sources

His bad-tempered, regretful voice gives the book a unity and immediacy that makes it feel less like a novel and more like a stand-up routine (the book it reminded me of most was Alexei Sayle's brilliant Overtaken).

Now people are getting bad-tempered.

Orangs get bad-tempered at times.

Everyone is burnished and slightly bad-tempered.

Several bad-tempered summits later, she got it.

Its notion of cantankerous is "bad-tempered; quarrelsome".

I was small, bad-tempered and bit my nails.

Michael now feels, with searing regret, that he presented a bad example of bad-tempered behavior.

Hambling's dog Max was just as bad-tempered.

Tait was snapping like a bad-tempered dog.

It was broad Irish again, but fierce and bad-tempered.