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  • 111cranky — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. irritable (see irascibility). Ant., amiable, good natured. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. cross, testy, crotchety, fretful; see irritable . See Synonym Study at irritable . III (Roget s 3… …

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  • 112petulant — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. fretful, irritable, complaining, peevish. See irascibility. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. grouchy, testy, cross; see irritable . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) a. [PECH uh lunt]… …

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  • 113badass — n. (Slang) person who is bad tempered, hot tempered person; aggressive person; tough guy adj. (Slang) bad tempered; aggressive (of a person); difficult to deal with (of a person); mean; very impressive; having powerful effect …

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  • 114badasses — n. (Slang) person who is bad tempered, hot tempered person; aggressive person; tough guy adj. (Slang) bad tempered; aggressive (of a person); difficult to deal with (of a person); mean; very impressive; having powerful effect …

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  • 115irritable — adjective being out of work made him irritable Syn: bad tempered, short tempered, irascible, tetchy, testy, touchy, grumpy, grouchy, moody, crotchety, in a (bad) mood, cantankerous, bilious, curmudgeonly, ill tempered, annoyed, cross, ill humored …

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  • 116fractious — I adjective apt to quarrel, bad tempered, bearish, bickering, cantankerous, captious, carping, caviling, choleric, churlish, complaining, contentious, contrary, crabby, cranky, cross, cross grained, crusty, difficilis, difficult, disposed to… …

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  • 117testy — Synonyms and related words: bad tempered, bearish, bitchy, cankered, cantankerous, captious, choleric, churlish, contentious, crabbed, crabby, cranky, cross, cross grained, crotchety, crusty, cussed, disagreeable, edgy, excitable, feisty,… …

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  • 118bellicose — adj 1. aggressive, antagonistic, combative, belligerent, pugnacious; hostile, unfriendly, inimical; contentious, quarrelsome, dissentious, wrangling, litigious, disputatious, argumentative; opposed, faultfinding, captious; contrary, perverse,… …

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  • 119choleric — adj irascible, quick tempered, short tempered, Inf. short fused; testy, crusty, fractious, touchy, thin skinned, edgy, on edge, Sl. uptight, huffy, peppery; splenetic, spleenful, bilious, atrabilious, cranky, ill humored, ill tempered, Australian …

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  • 120irascible — adj testy, touchy, thin skinned, irritable, edgy, Sl. uptight, hasty; choleric, peppery, quick tempered, short tempered, Inf. short fused, Inf. trigger happy; cross, surly, churlish, snappy, snappish, waspish, petulant, peevish, huffy, huffish,… …

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