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ill-tempered
adjective
• irritable or grumpy.
Similar:
bad-tempered
,
short-tempered
,
hot-tempered
,
quick-tempered
,
ill-humoured
,
moody
, in a (bad) mood,
cross
,
annoyed
,
irritable
,
irascible
,
tetchy
,
testy
,
crotchety
,
touchy
,
crusty
,
thin-skinned
,
scratchy
,
cantankerous
,
curmudgeonly
,
peevish
,
fractious
,
waspish
,
shrewish
,
prickly
,
peppery
,
sharp
,
pettish
,
grumpy
,
grouchy
,
crabbed
,
crabby
,
disagreeable
,
volatile
,
splenetic
,
dyspeptic
,
choleric
,
bilious
,
liverish
,
cross-grained
, as cross as two sticks,
snappish
,
snappy
,
chippy
, on a short fuse,
short-fused
,
shirty
,
stroppy
,
narky
,
ratty
,
eggy
, like a bear with a sore head,
cranky
,
ornery
,
peckish
, soreheaded,
snaky
,
waxy
,
miffy
,
Opposite:
good-tempered
,
amiable
,