Betekenis van:
tempered
tempered
Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
- adjusted or attuned by adding a counterbalancing element
"criticism tempered with kindly sympathy"
Werkwoord
Voorbeeldzinnen
- Portia tempered justice with mercy.
- People are becoming more short-tempered and violent.
- Tom's tempered the excesses of his financal risk-taking.
- She looks bad-tempered, but she is kind at heart.
- I was quick tempered when I was young.
- He looks bad-tempered, but he is kind at heart.
- The bad-tempered man snapped at his daughter.
- I'm short-tempered, and a loose-tongued man.
- Iron is tempered by heating and sudden cooling.
- "Short tempered as ever." He said while dodging Reika's fist.
- Such evidence is clearly inadmissible in court as it has been tempered with.
- Zebras become progressively more ill-tempered as they age, which militates against their domestication.
- Steel is quenched in cold water after having been tempered by heating.
- On the days he doesn't take a nap, he's bad tempered.
- He became bad-tempered, continually criticized his wife's cooking and complained of a pain in his stomach.