badtempered

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cantankerous — [adj] difficult, crabby badtempered, bearish, captious, choleric, contrary, cranky, critical, cross, crotchety*, crusty*, disagreeable, dour, grouchy*, grumpy*, huffy*, ill humored, ill natured, irascible, irritable, morose, obstinate, ornery*,… … New thesaurus
testy — [adj] irritable, touchy annoyed, badtempered, cantankerous, captious, choleric, crabbed, cranky*, cross, crotchety, edgy, exasperated, fretful, grouchy, grumpy*, impatient, irascible, mean, ornery*, out of sorts, peevish, peppery, petulant,… … New thesaurus
vixen — Female foxes are evidently very badtempered and to call a woman a vixen is to say that she is ‘a nasty quean, a slut, a scold’, as Burton expressed it in The Anatomy of Melancholy. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream Shakespeare has Helena say of her … A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

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