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adj. stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate; "unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders"- Spectator

cantankerous, crotchety, ornery

adj. having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers

cussed, obdurate, obstinate, unrepentant

adj. stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing

contrarious, cross-grained

adj. difficult to deal with

intractable

adj. not tractable; difficult to manage or mold; "an intractable disposition"; "intractable pain"; "the most intractable issue of our era"; "intractable metal"

cussed, obdurate, obstinate, unrepentant

adj. stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing

refractory, recalcitrant

adj. not responding to treatment; "a stubborn infection"; "a refractory case of acne"; "stubborn rust stains"

refractory, stubborn

adj. not responding to treatment; "a stubborn infection"; "a refractory case of acne"; "stubborn rust stains"

fractious, refractory, recalcitrant

adj. stubbornly resistant to authority or control; "a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"; "a refractory child"

hateful, mean

adj. characterized by malice; "a hateful thing to do"; "in a mean mood"

fretful, querulous, whiney, whiny

adj. habitually complaining; "a whiny child"

disagreeable

adj. unpleasant to interact with; "a disagreeable old man"

carping, caviling, nitpicking, pettifogging, quibbling, cavilling

adj. quibbling over insignificant details; "caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders"-Edmund Burke; "her nagging and carping attack"; "thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking"; "a pettifogging lawyer's mind"; "had no patience with quibbling critics"

pernickety, persnickety

adj. characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details; "a persnickety job"; "a persnickety school teacher"

aggressive, belligerent

adj. characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight; "aggressive acts against another country"; "a belligerent tone"

unfriendly

adj. not disposed to friendship or friendliness; "an unfriendly coldness of manner"; "an unfriendly action to take"

contrarious, cross-grained

adj. difficult to deal with

bolshy, stroppy

adj. obstreperous

bullheaded, bullet-headed, pigheaded

adj. obstinate and stupid

dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding

adj. stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"

hardheaded, mulish

adj. unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack

obstreperous

adj. boisterously and noisily aggressive; "kept up an obstreperous clamor"

stiff-necked

adj. haughtily stubborn; "a stiff-necked old Boston brahmin"

strong-minded, strong-willed

adj. having a determined will

litigious

adj. of or relating to litigation

atrabilious, bilious, dyspeptic, liverish

adj. irritable as if suffering from indigestion

snappish, snappy

adj. apt to speak irritably; "a snappish tone of voice"

choleric, irascible, hotheaded, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short-tempered

adj. quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander"

crabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, bad-tempered, ill-tempered

adj. annoyed and irritable

cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, testy, tetchy, techy

adj. easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"

crusty, curmudgeonly, gruff, ill-humored, ill-humoured

adj. brusque and surly and forbidding; "crusty remarks"; "a crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff manner"; "a gruff reply"

dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen

adj. showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"

feisty, touchy

adj. quick to take offense

huffish, sulky

adj. sullen or moody

misanthropic, misanthropical

adj. hating mankind in general

misogynous, misogynistic

adj. hating women in particular

shirty, snorty

adj. (British informal) ill-tempered or annoyed

shrewish, nagging

adj. continually complaining or faultfinding; "a shrewish wife"; "nagging parents"

surly, ugly

adj. inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace; "a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind"

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