bad-tempered or disagreeable
51ornery — adj Informal. 1. cantankerous, surly, irascible, iracund, crabbed, crabby; ill natured, unfriendly, obnoxious, choleric; ill tempered, bad tempered, short tempered, quick tempered; brusque, peppery, crusty, grumpy, grouchy, dyspeptic, bearish,… …
52petulant — I adjective acrimonious, annoyed, argumentative, bad tempered, bearish, cantankerous, captious, carping, cavilling, censorious, choleric, churlish, contentious, crabbed, crabby, cranky, cross, cross tempered, crusty, curmudgeonly, difficult,… …
53cranky — 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… …
54petulant — 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]… …
55testy — 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,… …
56ill-natured — adjective having an irritable and unpleasant disposition • Ant: ↑good natured • Similar to: ↑atrabilious, ↑bilious, ↑dyspeptic, ↑liverish, ↑bristly, ↑prickly, ↑ …
57nasty — Synonyms and related words: Fescennine, Rabelaisian, abhorrent, abominable, abusive, acute, annoying, arrant, atrocious, awful, awkward, bad, bad tempered, baleful, barfy, base, bawdy, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, bitchy, black,… …
58peevish — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. irascible, fretful, cranky, cross, irritable, touchy. See irascibility. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Having a sour disposition] Syn. perverse, pertinacious, morose; see obstinate . 2. [Inclined to… …
59dis´a|gree´a|ble|ness — dis|a|gree|a|ble «DIHS uh GREE uh buhl», adjective, noun. –adj. 1. not to one s liking; unpleasant: »to speak a disagreeable truth. A headache is disagreeable. SYNONYM(S): offensive. 2. not friendly; unkind; bad tempered; cross: »Sh …
60dis|a|gree|a|ble — «DIHS uh GREE uh buhl», adjective, noun. –adj. 1. not to one s liking; unpleasant: »to speak a disagreeable truth. A headache is disagreeable. SYNONYM(S): offensive. 2. not friendly; unkind; bad tempered; cross: »Sh …
