What does bad-temperedness mean?
Bad-temperedness means The quality of being bad-tempered..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
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!
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.
For the most part, not only are these patients remarkably witty and precocious in replies and reactions, but they are, in the main, intelligent as well. Theirs is not the incorrigibility and bad-temperedness of the moron and the defective, for on psychometric test in all of my cases only one subject showed an intelligence below normal (intelligence quotient 58 per cent, case V. A.).
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Bad-temperedness means The quality of being bad-tempered..
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Possible antonyms include good-temperedness.
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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