Shattered stepmother rose thus?

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short-tempered

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'shattered stepmother rose thus?' is the definition.
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'shattered stepmother rose thus?' is the wordplay.
'shattered' indicates anagramming the letters.
'rose thus?' becomes 'red' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'stepmother' with letters rearranged gives 'shorttempe'.
'shorttempe'+'red'='SHORT-TEMPERED'

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(Other definitions for short-tempered that I've seen before include "Irascible" , "Easily moved to anger" , "Testy" , "Impatient" , "Easily riled" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.

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