ill-natured
Adjective
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Having an irritable and unpleasant disposition (synset 301138269)
also: unpleasant - offensive or disagreeable; causing discomfort or unhappinesstells us about: nature - the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactionssimilar to:
- atrabilious, bilious, dyspeptic, liverish - irritable as if suffering from indigestion
- bristly, prickly, splenetic, waspish - very irritable
- cantankerous, crotchety, ornery - having a difficult and contrary disposition
- choleric, hot-tempered, hotheaded, irascible, quick-tempered, short-tempered - quickly aroused to anger
- churlish - having a bad disposition; surly
- bad-tempered, crabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, ill-tempered - annoyed and irritable
- cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy - easily irritated or annoyed
- crusty, curmudgeonly, gruff, ill-humored, ill-humoured - brusque and surly and forbidding
- currish - resembling a cur; snarling and rude
- dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen - showing a brooding ill humor
- disagreeable - unpleasant to interact with
- huffish, sulky - sullen or moody
- misanthropic, misanthropical - hating mankind in general
- misogynistic, misogynous - hating women in particular
- shirty, snorty - (British informal) ill-tempered or annoyed
- nagging, shrewish - continually complaining or faultfinding
- snappish, snappy - apt to speak irritably
- spoiled, spoilt - having the character or disposition harmed by pampering or oversolicitous attention
- surly, ugly - inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace
- vinegarish, vinegary - having a sour disposition; ill-tempered
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