It was not only ill-tempered but grossly inaccurate.
Such ill-tempered debates generate more heat than light.
Setting aside my rather ill-tempered contribution to that debate, certain facts emerge.
All of us know from personal experience that a bad journey can mean that we arrive at work feeling ill-tempered and tired.
I shall not say that they are all ill-tempered landlords or ill-tempered tenants, but such landlords and tenants exist on both sides.
Although the debate has at times been ill-tempered —not so much today as last week—it has achieved a great deal.
He may be hasty and ill-tempered in relation to the ordinary driver, but an instinctive courtesy is shown to those driving invalid vehicles.
In the past two years, there has been a great deal of at times ill-tempered debate about race relations, policing and crime.