Meanings
adjectiveevil-tempered (comparative more evil-tempered, superlative most evil-tempered)
comparative more evil-tempered · superlative most evil-tempered
- Extremely bad-tempered.
I call him a fool; but he attends me still with the same unwearied smile, the same bland professional manner, the same neatly-trimmed red whiskers, till I begin to suspect that I am an ungrateful, evil-tempered invalid.
1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 10
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