How to Use hot-tempered in a Sentence
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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
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In addition, teens who are dealing with intense emotions that are hard to cope with are often hot-tempered and easily irritated.
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Staff Author,
Parents,
9 Mar. 2026
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Here was Wyndham Clark, a talented but sometimes hot-tempered golfer, showing a human side that people probably needed to see.
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Dan Zaksheske Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
22 June 2026
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Overall, Savitt’s tactics have elicited responses that The Verge reported made Musk appear dishonest and hot-tempered to the jury.
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Ashley Belanger,
ArsTechnica,
30 Apr. 2026
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Robbie is a complicated man, at once incredibly compassionate and deeply self-centered, philosophical and brooding but also impulsive and hot-tempered.
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Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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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).
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Matt Zoller Seitz,
Vulture,
12 Oct. 2025
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