Sentence examples for foul temper from inspiring English sources

Foul temper.

Someone with a foul temper "did not suffer fools gladly".

His bookish daughter was afraid of his foul temper.

"The men have entrained a power struggle of outsize athleticism, machismo and foul temper.

But Agee's virtue was shot through with dissidence, foul temper, and comedy.

He has a foul temper and a mean streak as wide as the Hudson river.

It shouldn't be a bastion of regressive social ideas and foul tempers.

He catalogs foul tempers, exalts bleak humors and never flinches from a tantrum.

The Online Etymology Dictionary, however, attributes the word's roots to 1821, long before the advent of the modern automobile or the foul tempers it could inspire.

In turns sweet natured and foul tempered, the young Winnie attended a boarding school and became South Africa's first black female social worker.

In both chapters, intermittent battles erupt among fantasy creatures with beaks, wings, scales, talons, foul tempers, and occasional beauty and benevolence, in which the earth shudders, lights flash, fireballs blaze and explosions resound to a driving rock music accompaniment.