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feisty, touchy

adj. quick to take offense

huffy, thin-skinned, feisty, touchy

adj. quick to take offense

fretful, querulous, whiney, whiny

adj. habitually complaining; "a whiny child"

temperamental

adj. relating to or caused by temperament; "temperamental indifference to neatness"; "temperamental peculiarities"

churlish

adj. having a bad disposition; surly; "churlish as a bear"- Shakespeare

passionate

adj. having or expressing strong emotions

moody, temperamental

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

impatient

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

afflictive, painful, sore

adj. causing misery or pain or distress; "it was a sore trial to him"; "the painful process of growing up"

irritable

adj. abnormally sensitive to a stimulus

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"

allergic, hypersensitive, hypersensitized, hypersensitised, sensitized, sensitised, supersensitive, supersensitized, supersensitised

adj. having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor); "allergic children"; "hypersensitive to pollen"

delicate

adj. of an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely; "almost undetectable with even the most delicate instruments"

thorny

adj. bristling with perplexities; "the thorny question of states' rights"

awkward, embarrassing, sticky, unenviable

adj. hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment; "awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the discussion"; "an awkward pause followed his remark"; "a sticky question"; "in the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign"

afflictive, painful, sore

adj. causing misery or pain or distress; "it was a sore trial to him"; "the painful process of growing up"

unpleasant

adj. disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings ; "an unpleasant personality"; "unpleasant repercussions"; "unpleasant odors"

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

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"

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"

alive, aware

adj. followed by "to" or "of"; knowing or realizing the existence of: "alive to the danger"

oversensitive

adj. unduly sensitive or thin-skinned

responsive

adj. readily reacting to suggestions, influences, appeals or efforts; "keeping government in America responsive to the will of the people"

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