The phrase "of ill temper" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to indicate that someone is in a bad mood and that their attitude is unfriendly. For example: "John was of ill temper, so I quickly excused myself from the discussion."
A tendency to have a snappy bit of ill temper.
James J. Cramer, a former hedge fund manager, was accused of ill temper and insider trading by Nicholas W. Maier, the son of two of Mr. Cramer's friends.
I think, though, that the atmosphere in our house, that climate of ill temper and ferocity and disgust coming from my often unseen father, must have made any other place seem reasonable, almost accepting.
In recent weeks, while John McCain has been defending himself against accusations of ill temper, Sid, who is a senior publicity director at Capitol Records, has been overseeing the winter press campaign for the rock band Megadeth.
And while Sturrock is frank about Dahl's zealous youthful womanizing, about his gambling and drinking and the notorious fits of ill temper that soured many friendships and professional connections, he treads gingerly around the question of Dahl's anti-Semitism, for example, and around what were obviously thorny family relations.
The Carpenters would have been welcome at Ann Demeulemeester's show on Friday night, another "go and get your Prozac" escapade from this designer, a visit to the territory of lank hair, black cargo pants and miniskirts dangling with too many hanging straps and an excess of ill temper.
A flash of ill-temper when he was a teenager saw him ditched by Arsenal but there is now a fair prospect, 10 years on from the expulsion, that he will win his first England cap at some stage in the friendly with France.
This work, published only three years before Herder's death and after his renown had been eclipsed by such new stars as Schelling and Fichte, has never received much attention, but beneath its bursts of ill-temper it contains interesting and important criticisms of Kant.
The atmosphere in the Kentish Town house echoed that of the elder Gibbons's household, and was dominated by Telford's frequent bouts of ill-temper, drinking, womanising and occasional acts of violence.
There can be a relationship between nastiness and mental illness, and many therapists assume that when patients are mentally ill and mean, the illness is probably the cause of the ill temper.
"From all four centres came reports of violence, ill temper, serious injury, and precious little of the artistic soccer to be expected of the world's leading professionals".
