bad-temperedness

Noun

bad-temperedness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being bad-tempered.
   • 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
   • 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

   Antonyms:

   good-temperedness