ill-tempered

ill-tempered
adj
ill-humored, cross, irascible, choleric, splenetic; crabby, crabbed, cranky, grouchy, grumpy, cantankerous, crotchety, crusty; irritable, touchy, testy, thin-skinned, waspish, peevish, petulant; moody, sulky, sullen, dour, gloomy, sullen, morose; bitter, acrimonious, acerbic, sour, caustic, tart, churlish, surly; huffish, huffy, in a pique, piqued, Archaic. in a pucker, Inf. in a stew, in a fume; angry, irate, in high dudgeon, wrathful, raging, fuming, furious, worked up.
2. unkindly, unamiable, unfriendly. See ill-humored (def.2).

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