Short-tempered in a sentence as an adjective

To be fair, businessmen are short-tempered and flightly.

My response was over the top and didn't need to be so short-tempered, so again I apologize.

...on steroids...meaning artificially inflated, short-tempered, aggressive and ultimately impotent?Got it.

Short-tempered definitions

adjective

quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander"

See also: choleric irascible hotheaded hot-tempered quick-tempered