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gruff, crusty, curmudgeonly, 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"

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"

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