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

adj. perversely irritable

disagreeable, ill-natured

adj. not to your liking; "a most disagreeable journey"; "a disagreeable old man"; "in a disagreeable mood"

surly, churlish

adj. rude and boorish

objectionable, unpleasant, obnoxious

adj. causing disapproval or protest; "a vulgar and objectionable person"

offensive

adj. unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses; "offensive odors"

fretful, querulous, whiney, whining, whiny

adj. habitually complaining; "a whining child"

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"

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"

gruff, 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"

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"

pleasing, agreeable, good-natured

adj. conforming to your own liking or feelings or nature; "Is the plan agreeable to you?"; "he's an agreeable fellow"; "My idea of an agreeable person...is a person who agrees with me"- Disraeli; "an agreeable manner"

agreeable, amiable, good-humored, good-humoured, likable, likeable

adj. disposed to please; "an amiable villain with a cocky sidelong grin"- Hal Hinson

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