Bad-temperedness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being bad-tempered. uncountable

    "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!"

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"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!"

Etymology

From bad-tempered + -ness.

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