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adj. apt to speak irritably; "a snappish tone of voice"

adj. characterized by malice; "a hateful thing to do"; "in a mean mood"

adj. offensive or even (of persons) malicious; "in a nasty mood"; "a nasty accident"; "a nasty shock"; "a nasty smell"; "a nasty trick to pull"; "Will he say nasty things at my funeral?"- Ezra Pound

litigious

adj. of or relating to litigation

atrabilious, bilious, dyspeptic, liverish

adj. irritable as if suffering from indigestion

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

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

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

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"

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