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Another word for quick-tempered

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quick-tempered

modif.

temperamental, quarrelsome, irascible, excitable; see irritable.

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Another word for quick-tempered

adjective

Easily annoyed:

choleric, irascible, peppery, testy, tetchy, touchy. See feelings

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He was quick-tempered, but of kindly disposition, intelligent and patriotic, and he left a reputation of unblemished honesty and uprightness.
He was pious, charitable, of unimpeachable morality, quick-tempered but placable, no great scholar, and only energetic as a hunter.

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