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Recent Examples of hot-tempered
What is the strategy for living with someone who is exceedingly hot-tempered?
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R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2025
The movie co-stars Albert Finney as an acclaimed and hot-tempered writer named George and Keaton as Faith, the wife and mother of his children, who gave up her own dreams to support him, only to get thrown over for a younger woman (Karen Allen).
—Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2025
Robbie is a complicated man, at once incredibly compassionate and deeply self-centered, philosophical and brooding but also impulsive and hot-tempered.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Laura is observant, tender, strong-willed, hot-tempered.
—Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 2 May 2025
Melissa Benoist as Bree Buckley: The intelligent and hot-tempered Buckley who formerly oversaw the fishery’s finances and, like her father, has allowed alcohol to ruin her bright future.
—Joe Otterson, Variety, 18 Sep. 2024
Benoist will play Bree Buckley, the intelligent and hot-tempered Buckley who formerly oversaw the fishery’s finances and, like her father, has allowed alcohol to ruin her bright future.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2024
In a 2013 interview with CBS News, Knight pushed back on his reputation as being hot-tempered.
—Faris Tanyos, CBS News, 1 Nov. 2023
He is resented by Brother Nacho (Kinan Valdez), the most hot-tempered among them, for being another mouth to feed.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hot-tempered
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Despite their antagonistic start, the pair can’t help falling for each other and are now happily married with two children.—
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To below-the-line workers, longer deals will offer the promise, in the AMPTP’s view, of greater job security in a less antagonistic labor environment.—
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Skepticism came easily to Trump, who had long been hostile to mainstream foreign policy.—
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The helicopter the pilot was flying — a heavy, twin-rotor MH-47 Chinook — was struck by hostile fire during the operation.—
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The story follows an English teacher, Penelope Schleeman, who has written a début novel about the adventures of a feisty mermaid living in a matriarchal pod.—
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His third of the night was a smooth finish keyed by the feisty forechecking of Easton Cowan.—
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In this context, Trump’s belligerent signaling has created a perverse strategic dilemma for Latin American governments.—
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His was an innings of belligerent brilliance.—
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Instead Linda devolves, becoming more pugnacious and thin-skinned and pissed off.—
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The lieutenant governor is campaigning as the pugnacious, liberal choice in her matchup against Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., a more centrist Democrat who has won tough House races.—
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Venus fuses with combative Mars in your 3rd House of Communication, mixing tenderness with intensity and pushing for words that match actions.—
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During her speech, Paulson shared a bunch of text messages Keaton had sent her over the years, all of which were at once warm and acerbic, kind and a playfully combative.—
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And what’s most important — indeed the principal reason for protecting the existence of a noisy, quarrelsome, factious, muckraking free press in our republic — is accountability.—
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All arms come from coal and steel and integrated industries would stop Europe’s most quarrelsome countries waging war on one another.—
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Any American traveling abroad right now should prepare to have confrontational conversations, Hernandez says.—
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This year’s furry green villain is more funny than scary, his behavior unthreatening, his confrontational manner with the Whos never feeling particularly dangerous.—
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“Hot-tempered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hot-tempered. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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