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Exact Match:

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

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Related Words:

spleeny collapse

feisty collapse: showing courage; "the champion is faced with a feisty challenger"

froward collapse: habitually disposed to disobedience and opposition

waspish collapse

tetchy collapse

bearish collapse: expecting prices to fall

cussed collapse: stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing

huffy collapse: roused to anger; "stayed huffy a good while"- Mark Twain; "she gets mad when you wake her up so early"; "mad at his friend"; "sore over a remark"; quick to take offense

wrongheaded collapse: obstinately perverse in judgment or opinion; "a wrongheaded policy"

testy collapse

irascible collapse

snappish collapse: tending to speak irritably; "a snappish tone of voice"

spiteful collapse

bitchy collapse: marked by or arising from malice; "a catty remark"

excitable collapse: easily excited; capable of responding to stimuli

surly collapse: inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace; "a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind"

ornery collapse

splenetic collapse

churlish collapse: having a bad disposition; surly; "churlish as a bear"- Shakespeare; rude and boorish

gruff collapse: deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion; "gruff voices"; "the dog's gruff barking"; "hoarse cries"; "makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky"- Virgil Thomson

peevish collapse

cross grained collapse

prickly collapse

querulous collapse

petulant collapse

crusty collapse: brusque and surly and forbidding; "crusty remarks"; "a crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff manner"; "a gruff reply"

touchy collapse

irritable collapse: abnormally sensitive to a stimulus

fractious collapse: unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome; "rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas"; "fractious components of a communication system"; stubbornly resistant to authority or control; "a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"; "a refractory child"

difficult collapse: not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "a difficult child"; "found himself in a difficult situation"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?"; requiring much effort and trouble; "the mountain climb was long, steep, and difficult"

crabbed collapse: perversely irritable

ugly collapse: displeasing to the senses; "an ugly face"; "ugly furniture"

disagreeable collapse: not to your liking; "a most disagreeable journey"; "a disagreeable old man"; "in a disagreeable mood"; not agreeing with your tastes or expectations; "found the task disagreeable and decided to abandon it"; "a job temperamentally unsympathetic to him"

wayward collapse

sullen collapse

moody collapse: United States evangelist (1837-1899); United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (born in 1906); subject to sharply varying moods; "a temperamental opera singer"

unfeeling collapse: devoid of feeling or sensation; "unfeeling trees"

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