bad-temperedness

alternative bad temperedness

1. uncountableThe quality of being bad-tempered.

   Much of the bad-temperedness which is so inexplicable to families often has just such a simple foundation. Children are always rubbing up against raw edges and being made angry and hurt thereby.

   1927 November 19, Myrtle Meyer Eldred, “Your Baby and Mine”, in Greensboro Daily News, volume XXXVII, number 125, Greensboro, N.C., page 6, column 6

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   Now crown Duty with Desire and see how the stern, forbidding, Gorgon-like features change! That set doggedness, that ingrained obstinacy, that cynical bad-temperedness melts into eager-eyed anticipation, smiles of expectation, flashes of hope and radiations of love!

   1926 March 29, William Carter, “Duty and Desire”, in Brooklyn Daily Eagle, volume 86, number 87, New York, N.Y., page 15, column 4

   For the most part, not only are these patients remarkably witty and precocious in replies and reactions, but they are, in the main, intelligent as well. Theirs is not the incorrigibility and bad-temperedness of the moron and the defective, for on psychometric test in all of my cases only one subject showed an intelligence below normal (intelligence quotient 58 per cent, case V. A.).

   1929 February, Walter Timme, “Pluriglandular Syndrome: Involving Calcium Deficiency and Correlated with Behavior Disturbances”, in T[heodore] H. Weisenburg et al., editors, Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, volume 21, number 2, Chicago, Ill.: […] American Medical Association, […], →ISSN, page 259

   Antonyms: good-temperedness