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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"

disobedient

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

impatient

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

intolerant

adj. unwilling to tolerate difference of opinion

moody, temperamental

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

empty, empty-bellied

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

famished, ravenous, sharp-set, starved, esurient

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"

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"

cantankerous, crotchety, ornery

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

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

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"

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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