Examples of use of -tempered
1. Obama (Ill.) was tempered by his nomination fight against Sen.
2. Raghav Shastri (Nana Patekar) is a short tempered cynic.
3. The traffic above ground will be slow and ill–tempered.
4. But passion for this pastime is inevitably tempered by finances.
5. Even Cherie‘s departure was characterised by a bad–tempered aside.