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husky, hoarse

adj. deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion; "gruff voices"; "the dog's gruff barking"; "hoarse cries"; "makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky"- Virgil Thomson

crusty, curmudgeonly, ill-humored, ill-humoured

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

short, bluff, curt, brusque, brusk

adj. marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him"

cackly, squawky

adj. like the cackles or squawks a hen makes especially after laying an egg

guttural, croaking, croaky

adj. like the sounds of frogs and crows; "a guttural voice"; "acres of guttural frogs"

discordant, jarring

adj. making or causing a harsh and irritating sound; "the jarring noise of the iron gate scraping on the sidewalk"

grating, rasping, rough, gravelly, harsh, raspy

adj. unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice"

jangling, jangly

adj. like the discordant ringing of nonmusical metallic objects striking together; "cowboys with jangling spurs"

shrill, piercing

adj. loud and sharp; "the piercing shriek of sirens"

raucous, strident

adj. unpleasantly loud and harsh

rending

adj. resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree; "the tree split with a great ripping sound"; "heard a rending roar as the crowd surged forward"

screaming, shrieking

adj. emitting or resembling loud piercing sounds like screams: "a screaming fury of sound"; "shrieking winds"

argumentative, contentious, disputatious, disputative, litigious

adj. inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits; "a style described as abrasive and contentious"; "a disputatious lawyer"; "a litigious and acrimonious spirit"

dyspeptic, atrabilious, bilious, liverish

adj. irritable as if suffering from indigestion

bristly, prickly, snappish, splenetic, waspish

adj. very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"

cantankerous, crotchety, ornery

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

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

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

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

adj. perversely irritable

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

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

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

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

sulky, huffish

adj. sullen or moody

misanthropic, misanthropical

adj. hating mankind in general

misogynous

adj. hating women in particular

shirty, snorty

adj. (British informal) ill-tempered or annoyed

vixenish, shrewish, nagging

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

ugly, surly

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

euphonious, pleasant, euphonous

adj. having a pleasant sound; "a euphonious trill of silver laughter"

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