cross-tempered
31quick-tempered — [adj] easily upset, angered choleric, cranky, cross, excitable, fiery, hottempered, impatient, impulsive, inflammable, irascible, irritable, passionate, peppery, petulant, quarrelsome, ratty, sensitive, shorttempered, shrewish, splenetic,… …
32bad-tempered — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Having or showing a bad temper: cantankerous, crabbed, cranky, cross, disagreeable, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, ill tempered, irascible, irritable, nasty, peevish, petulant, querulous, snappish, snappy, surly, testy …
33bad-tempered — adjective Syn: irritable, irascible, tetchy, testy, grumpy, grouchy, crotchety, in a (bad) mood, cantankerous, curmudgeonly, ill tempered, ill humoured, peevish, cross, fractious, pettish, crabby; informal snappish, on a short fuse; Brit …
34ill-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,… …
35bad-tempered — /bæd ˈtɛmpəd/ (say bad tempuhd) adjective cross; cantankerous. –bad temperedly, adverb …
36petulant — I adjective acrimonious, annoyed, argumentative, bad tempered, bearish, cantankerous, captious, carping, cavilling, censorious, choleric, churlish, contentious, crabbed, crabby, cranky, cross, cross tempered, crusty, curmudgeonly, difficult,… …
37frumpish — a.; (also frumpy) Cross, cross tempered, cross grained, snappish, irritable …
38tart — I adj 1. sharp, sour, acid, acerb, acerbic; acidulous, acescent, acetous, vinegary; acrid, bitter, pungent, harsh, piquant, unripe. 2. caustic, cutting, mordant, biting, acrimonious; trenchant, incisive, piercing, pricking, scathing, burning,… …
39Frumpish — Frump ish, a. 1. Cross tempered; scornful. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 2. Old fashioned, as a woman s dress. [1913 Webster] Our Bell . . . looked very frumpish. Foote. [1913 Webster] …
40acrimonious — I adjective acerb, acerbic, acrid, astringent, biting, bitter, blistering, captious, caustic, censorious, choleric, corrosive, cross tempered, cruel, cutting, cynical, embittered, envenomed, gruff, harsh, hostile, huffy, ill natured, inimical,… …
