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foul-tempered
vs
waspish
foul-tempered
adj
Synonym of bad-tempered
waspish
adj
Spiteful or irascible.
Suggestive of the behaviour of a wasp.
How often have the words
foul-tempered
and
waspish
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
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