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peckish

adj. somewhat hungry

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

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

disagreeable, ill-natured

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

fretful, querulous, whiney, whining, whiny

adj. habitually complaining; "a whining child"

bitter, acrimonious, rancorous, resentful

adj. marked by strong resentment or cynicism; "an acrimonious dispute"; "bitter about the divorce"

mordant, saturnine, sardonic

adj. bitter or scornful; "the face was saturnine and swarthy, and the sensual lips...twisted with disdain"- Oscar Wilde

sarcastic

adj. expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds

objectionable, unpleasant, obnoxious

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

offensive

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

huffy, touchy, thin-skinned

adj. quick to take offense

irritable

adj. abnormally sensitive to a stimulus

arguing, contentious, quarrelsome

adj. given to quarreling; "arguing children"; "quarrelsome when drinking"

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"

meticulous, painstaking, finical, finicky, fussy, pernickety, persnickety, punctilious

adj. excessively concerned about niceties

disobedient

adj. not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority; "disobedient children"

impatient

adj. restless or short of temper under delay or opposition; "impatient with the slower students"; "impatient of criticism"

intolerant

adj. unwilling to tolerate difference of opinion

temperamental, moody

adj. subject to sharply varying moods; "a temperamental opera singer"

empty-bellied

adj. needing nourishment; "after skipped lunch the men were empty by suppertime"; "empty-bellied children"

esurient, ravenous, famished, sharp-set, starved

adj. extremely hungry; "they were tired and famished for food and sleep"; "a ravenous boy"; "the family was starved and ragged"; "fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy"

supperless

adj. without supper; "went to bed supperless"

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

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"

good-natured

adj. having an easygoing and cheerful disposition; "too good-natured to resent a little criticism"; "the good-natured policeman on our block"; "the sounds of good-natured play"

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