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bad temperedness

bad temperedness is the alternative form of bad-temperedness.

Meaning of 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

Questions about bad temperedness

What is bad temperedness the alternative form of?
Bad temperedness is the alternative form of bad-temperedness.

Words near bad temperedness in the dictionary

  1. bad sport
  2. bad sports
  3. bad taste in one's mouth
  4. bad tastes in one's mouth
  5. bad temper
  6. bad temperedness
  7. bad tempers
  8. Bad Thing
  9. Bad Things
  10. bad things come in threes
  11. bad to beat

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