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ill-temperedly
adverb
uk /ˌɪlˈtem.pəd.li/ us /ɪlˈtem.pɚd.li/
in a way that shows someone is angry or annoyed:
She dragged the wet jumper off over her head, still muttering ill-temperedly.
The match started ill-temperedly and deteriorated rapidly.
The machine gets thumped and kicked ill-temperedly, but it's never going to give back the money.
Her nap had left her even more ill-temperedly tired than she had been to start with.
He argues, ill-temperedly but not unreasonably, that the song is no gloomier than many books, plays, or films.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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grumpiness
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pettishly
petulance
petulancy
petulant
petulantly
surlily
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testily
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