grumpy

grumpy
adj
surly, cantankerous, irascible, crabbed, iracund, choleric, brusque, peppery, crusty, dyspeptic, crotchety, thorny, bearish, snarling, growling, Inf. grouchy; cross, feisty, huffy, irritable, peevish, cranky, bilious, out of sorts; testy, touchy, ill-tempered, bad-tempered, short-tempered; fractious, quarrelsome, caviling, disagreeable, Inf. ornery, Inf. bitchy, Inf. ugly; sharp, uncivil, rough, harsh; abrupt, curt, short, terse, blunt.

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