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grumpy adjective [ ˈɡrʌmpi ]

• bad-tempered and irritable.
• "his performance as the grumpy gateman"
Similar: bad-tempered, ill-tempered, short-tempered, crotchety, crabby, crabbed, tetchy, testy, waspish, prickly, peppery, touchy, irritable, irascible, crusty, cantankerous, curmudgeonly, bearish, surly, churlish, ill-natured, ill-humoured, peevish, cross, fractious, disagreeable, pettish, as cross as two sticks, grouchy, snappy, snappish, chippy, on a short fuse, short-fused, shirty, stroppy, narky, ratty, eggy, like a bear with a sore head, cranky, ornery, soreheaded, snaky, miffy, waxy,
Opposite: good-humoured,


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