bad-temperedly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a bad-tempered manner.
Example Sentences
- "“What does the Queen have for supper, Mrs. Jarmey?” / “How sh’d I know!” was the only reply, given rather bad-temperedly."
- "Near a clump of bushes a freshet charged bad-temperedly across the road and off into a deep gulley; […]"
- "I stuck out my foot to stop the doors from closing but the man pushed me away, bad-temperedly."
Etymology
From bad-tempered + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more bad-temperedly (comparative)
most bad-temperedly (superlative)